FC4: grub no longer allows windows booting

[Craig White]

On Tue, 2005-08-16 at 21:15 -0800, Noah wrote:
> On Tue, 16 Aug 2005 20:49:14 -0700, Craig White wrote
> > On Tue, 2005-08-16 at 20:44 -0700, oldman wrote:
> > 
> > > 2) Possibly you have blown out the NT bootloader by, for instance, 
> > > installing grub to
> > > /dev/hda1
> > >     This is the worse case as the only way I know to get it back is to 
> > > re-install windows
> > > (if you choose to do this you may be able to save your files if you 
> > > choose not to format
> > > and partition your drive).
> > ----
> > whoa - if it comes to this, ask the list. There is an easier way to
> > 'FIXBOOT' on Windows
> 
> 
> 
> Hi there,
> 
> here is what my fdisk is showing me.  do I need to get windows XP to fix
> itself somehow?  I really dont know what to do at this point.
> 
> --- snip ---
> 
> # fdisk -l
> 
> Disk /dev/hda: 300.0 GB, 300090728448 bytes
> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 36483 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
> 
>    Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
> /dev/hda1   *           1       36482   293041633+   7  HPFS/NTFS
> 
> Disk /dev/hdb: 300.0 GB, 300090728448 bytes
> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 36483 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
> 
>    Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
> /dev/hdb1   *           1          13      104391   83  Linux
> /dev/hdb2              14       36483   292945275   8e  Linux LVM
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Boot your Windows XP cd - choose 'Recovery mode' - (Console)

choose the Windows installation and put in the administrator password

then type

FIXBOOT

exit

Windows should boot after that.

Craig