Dual-Boot/XP Crash

[Gary Waters]

> 
> If Windows overwrites your MBR you can fix it fairly easily. Boot from the 
> FC1 CD in rescue mode. This mounts your root partition at /mnt/sysimage, so run
> # chroot /mnt/sysimage
> to make it the root filesystem. Then run
> 
> # grub-install /dev/hda
> (this assumes that GRUB is to be installed in the MBR of the primary master 
> disk, if not you'll need a different command).


Fixing XP wasn't my primary worry. It was the Grub situation that had me
in "newbie terror" mode. :-) I suspected XP would crash on me. I can't
say I've ever made any radical hardware changes on any NT-based windows
machines without there being a crash. If it wasn't for the fact that my
daughter uses XP for games, I more than likely would not repair it at
all. The few windows apps I do use still run perfectly from wine. Thanks
for the help!



> 
> As to fixing XP, that's another issue and one which doesn't really belong 
> here. The only advice which should appear in this list for fixing XP is to 
> run mke2fs /dev/hda1 which will cure all problems with XP (but I won't 
> because that wouldn't be nice). Basically, you need to boot into safe mode 
> and delete all devices related to the changed hardware - graphics card, IDE, 
> USB etc. Then reboot and let XP detect the new hardware. Make sure you 
> backup any XP files you need to keep as this process doesn't always work, 
> changing the MB sometimes requires a re-installation of XP.


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