Dual boot WinXP repair (maybe a little OT)
Aldo Foot
lunixer at gmail.com
Thu Mar 5 17:53:27 UTC 2009
On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 7:30 PM, Matthew Saltzman <mjs at clemson.edu> wrote:
<snip>
> I'm thinking of jiggering the partitions to put WinXP first again
> and /boot second. I know how to fix the Linux side when I do that, so
> maybe putting WinXP back will help. I'd rather not re-install because I
> installed a bunch of stuff on Win before I did this, so it would be
> annoying (not to say awful) to have to do that all over again.
Why not use Gparted to moved partitions around?
You wouldn't have to reinstall.
Also, how about creating a image of the WinXP partition so you can
recover anytime? Store the image in some external media.
Look here for partimage and other utilities:
http://www.sysresccd.org/Main_Page
~af
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