WinXP Pro - Guest on a physical drive MDK 10.1

[Guest xbaez]

Hello

I was using Fedora Core 1 and I installed VMWare 4.5x. I then booted my native WinXP PRofessional (which also boots without LInux as it uses the first partition of my HD) and it worked ok (I had to create two hardware profiles)

 

Now, I am using MK 10.1 Community, which I really like. However, after installing Vmware, I try to start my native WinXP Pro OS (by making it use the entire physical drive instead of a virtual one). When I am booting windows, I receive this message:

 

"NTLDR not found"

 

I inserted a bootable CD, and noticed that it doesn't recognizes any files under my c:\windows folder. (probably that is why it doesn't sees the NTLDR file). However, the disk is fine, I am using it right now (since Linux its located on it's second partition). Again, this worked with FC 1 really good.

 

I am downloading Fedora Core 3 now 1and I saw in it's release notes that VMWare works with it (FC 3 is based in a 2.6 kernel) if you install the vmware-any-any package

 

I tried using vmware-any-any-update84.tar.gz

 

First of all, I would like to know what does that program does

 

2) Will that fix the NTLDR problem with FC3 and other 2.6 based distros such as Mandrake?

 

REgards