-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 TARogue wrote: > I have a Compaq Presario SR1620NX running Windows XP. I used Acronis > Disk Director Suite 10.0 to repartition my harddrive and installed > Fedora Core 9. Once it was fully installed and configured I rebooted > back to the XP partition. I was immediately redirected to "System > Recovery" > > I ended having to boot back to Linux, mount the NTFS filesystem, backup > the entire partition and do a complete wipe & reinstall. Once that was > done, I "rescued" linux by reinstalling grub. With grub in place i can > get back to Linux (YAY!) but Windows is demanding a System Restore > again. > > The reason I'm blaming Compaq is because I've not had this problem on > ANY of my other XP/Fedora dual boot systems. Can anyone tell me how I > can get this to work? > My guess would be that grub entry for Windows XP is actually an entry for the system rescue partition. Check your partitions with e.g. 'fdisk - -l' and /boot/grub/menu.lst entries with 'chainloader +1'. The root (hdx,y) should be pointing to your Windows partition, not to the rescue one. In several cases I had Linux installer configure the two for grub as 'Windows NT' (which actually is just a system rescue partition ) and 'MS Windows XP etc.'
But yes, unless you need Windows specifically for USB/Audio or some devices not supported in Linux, the virtualization e.g. Virtualbox may make more sense, than maintaining a dual boot setup. Sarunas Burdulis -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFIVXUQVVkpJ1MUn+YRAlgLAJ99J+gbVH87cklDNehPB1m/y3Gi1gCfXcmo g8/YtWqZHieHWI6ppUedXH4= =0Xzk -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/