On Tuesday 27 September 2005 12:42, Tom Pfeifer wrote:
Since your WinXP on /dev/hda1 is a FAT32 partition, one thing that might
work is to use the backup boot sector that is kept on FAT32 file systems
to restore the WinXP boot sector on /dev/hda1.
dd if=/dev/hda1 of=/dev/hda1 bs=512 count=1
Andy wrote:
On Tuesday 27 September 2005 12:42, Tom Pfeifer wrote:
Since your WinXP on /dev/hda1 is a FAT32 partition, one thing that might
work is to use the backup boot sector that is kept on FAT32 file systems
to restore the WinXP boot sector on /dev/hda1.
dd if=/dev/hda1
I'm sure that to many people on this list, not being able to run WinXP would
be considered a good thing (TM), but trust me, I have lots of important
reasons for needing it :)
Anyway, here is the deal:
I have a few drives, one with win98 (don't ask!), one with win xp, and one
with Debian Sid. I
Am 26.09.2005 um 14:17 schrieb Andy:
Anyway, here is the deal:
I have a few drives, one with win98 (don't ask!), one with win xp, and one
with Debian Sid. I had grub happily booting everything until recently when
WinXP experienced some HDD corruption and I had to do a repair. Obviously,
Add the hide/unhide commands shown below:
title Windows NT/2000/XP
hide (hd0,4)
unhide (hd0,0)
root(hd0,0)
savedefault
makeactive
chainloader +1
title Windows 95/98/Me
hide (hd0,0)
unhide (hd0,4)
root(hd0,4)
savedefault
makeactive
On Monday 26 September 2005 3:17, Dennis Stosberg wrote:
Windows XP is on /dev/hda, which is (hd0,0) in GRUB's notation. So,
if you install the GRUB boot sector into /dev/hda1, you overwrite
Windows XP's boot sector in that partition. That means you won't be
able to boot Windows XP at all,
On Monday 26 September 2005 3:19, Roby wrote:
Add the hide/unhide commands shown below:
title Windows NT/2000/XP
hide (hd0,4)
unhide (hd0,0)
root(hd0,0)
savedefault
makeactive
chainloader +1
title Windows 95/98/Me
hide (hd0,0)
unhide
Andy wrote:
On Monday 26 September 2005 3:17, Dennis Stosberg wrote:
Windows XP is on /dev/hda, which is (hd0,0) in GRUB's notation. So,
if you install the GRUB boot sector into /dev/hda1, you overwrite
Windows XP's boot sector in that partition. That means you won't be
able to boot
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