Dual boot WinXP repair (maybe a little OT)

Dave Bolt IT Solutions dave at davebolt.co.uk
Thu Mar 5 02:06:26 UTC 2009


Well, I can't help much with the repair at this point, but I wander why you 
moved the XP partition.
When I first installed Fedora (core 8), I first installed XP since Microsoft 
don't like to share with other OS's, into a partition at the beginning of 
the first drive, leaving a second partition to be used mostly for storage. I 
then installed Fedora (in my case on a second drive), and used the Fedora 
installar's recomendations of where to put it's boot sector and whatever 
else, and it just took care of the details.
Now, in your case, XP has been installed as the first partition on the 
drive, then moved. Unfortunately, I think you will find that if you do get 
XP to boot, it will still think it is on the first partition, so will not 
run very well, if at all.
Reinstalling over XP may fix this without loosing most of the install, 
although I think wiping and starting again will actually take less time. 
(The repair install tends to check each file that is already on the drive, 
instead of just writing new files, as far as I can tell).
Regards
Dave 





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