[LinuxUsers] blue screen of death

[Paul Saenz]

when load up the live cd, (before installing live) and it gives me the option to boot from the hard drive, I boot to the 1st hard drive, and it gives me this message: 
booting from local hard disk...
Error loading operating system

I am wondering if the problem is in the partition table, or if it is the MBR.
I know it is dangerous to mess with the MBR, but I would like to try to rescue
this WIMPDOS system because it would be a great learning exercise. 

I would normally just say delete the windows, and install a jaunty/xp dual boot.
but I could learn something valuable. 

> From: 909linux at whizman.com
> To: linuxusers at socallinux.org
> Date: Fri, 22 May 2009 14:08:51 -0700
> Subject: Re: [LinuxUsers] blue screen of death
> 
> 
> I don't have a system on which i'm able+willing to try it out,
> but if your goal is to revert it to an MS-Windows only partition table
> (whether temporary or permanent), I think something like the following
> sequence would work.  I'd back up before touching a partition table
> (even if doing something that i would believe is known to always work).
> 
> 1. Boot with Ubuntu live CD in CD-ROM
> 2. Boot from first hard drive (instead of live CD session or installer),
>    when the Ubuntu CD asks you.
> 3. Run command shell box (cmd.exe)
> 4. fdisk /mbr
>    (fdisk is the one to treat with great respect)
> 
> Randall
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