Dual Boot, Grub, FC3-WinXpSP2, 2 drives. No go.

[Nat Gross]

Nigel Wade wrote:

> Nat Gross wrote:
>
>>>
>> The reason for this is that once upon a time, Win did in fact use 
>> drive C: as its home drive, and the second drive was 'extra'. Then 
>> one day, that install of win crashed and burned and cost me two 
>> weeks, (and I switched to Linux on my other machine), so when I 
>> re-installed Win, I used my second drive as the main guy, and just 
>> left drive C:, waiting for Linux.... And here I am.
>
>
> This may be the root of the problem.

No no. The root of the problem is that even though I had this major 
Windows crash back then, I still went back to it! (i did switch my other 
machine to Linux though. Should have switched both.)

>
> I think this is what Windows XP does at installation. It scans for 
> active partitions to see if there is another Windows installation. If 
> it thinks it's found one it leaves it active as the default boot 
> partition. Rather than install the bootloader info on the new 
> partition it installs it on the existing, active, partition and 
> configures it to include the newly installed Windows XP.
>
> If you subsequently move the boot disk or overwrite that partition you 
> lose your ability to boot Windows.
>
This explains it, then.

> Is there a way to fix this? Not sure. Someone else suggested fixboot 
> from rescue mode on the Windows XP CD. It's worth a try.
>
I just hope that it wont blow grub (and drag fc3 with it) away.
Thanks,
-nat