Grub Untouched Re: Dual-Boot/XP Crash

[Gary Waters]

Well, I did a repair on XP and got everything back up running perfectly.
I did have to reinstall all the windows updates, including service pack
1. The other good news is that the XP repair function didn't even touch
Grub. 



> The following makes these assumptions.
> a.  XP was installed on /dev/hda, and that fedora is elsewhere.
> b.  you used grub to boot XP.
> c.  grub is on the MBR.
> 
> 
> 1.  Boot with Fedora
> 2.  save the MBR
> # dd if=/dev/hda of=/path_to/mbr.img bs=512 count=1
> 3. reinstall XP
> 4. boot with knoppix
> 5. mount the drive where you saved the mbr record
> 6  restore the saved MBR
> # dd if=/moun_path_to/mbr.img of=/dev/hda bs=512 count=1
> 7. reboot to fedora.
> 
> There are of course, other options, such as making a boot floppy, do the 
> reinstall of XP, then boot back to fedora from the floppy and doing 
> grub-install etc.





Gary Waters
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