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<P><FONT SIZE=2>I wouldn't necessarily wipe the whole HD, just the windows partition.<BR>
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You could also use Xen in CentOS 5 for your Windows virtualization. I'd wait for 5.1 though which will be more refined then version 5.<BR>
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I've been thinking of setting up a Xen machine of my own with a Windows HVM and a couple of Linux PVMs with their GUIs/consoles pinned to different virtual consoles. It has always been a dream to Alt-FX to the OS of my choice.<BR>
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I'll need more then 1GB of RAM to do it right though.<BR>
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-Ross<BR>
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-----Original Message-----<BR>
From: centos-bounces@centos.org <centos-bounces@centos.org><BR>
To: CentOS Mailing List <centos@centos.org><BR>
Sent: Mon Nov 19 18:18:28 2007<BR>
Subject: Re: [CentOS] Dual boot box: WinXP & CentOS 5: Impossible torestoreWinXP?<BR>
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On Monday, 19 November 2007, Philip.R.Schaffner at NASA.gov wrote:<BR>
<snip><BR>
>A good toolkit for Windows is the Ultimate Boot CD for Windows at<BR>
><A HREF="http://www.ubcd4win.com/">http://www.ubcd4win.com/</A><BR>
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Phil:I found that Grisoft AVG (I use their free anti-virus program in<BR>
Windows) has a free tool:<BR>
AVG Anti-Rootkit Free<BR>
<A HREF="http://free.grisoft.com/doc/avg-anti-rootkit-free/lng/us/tpl/v5#details">http://free.grisoft.com/doc/avg-anti-rootkit-free/lng/us/tpl/v5#details</A><BR>
and I downloaded that.<BR>
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>It uses BartPE, discussed earlier, but adds a lot more tools, including<BR>
>rootkit and antivirus scanners. A clean install after data recovery is<BR>
>still the best bet.<BR>
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I'll look into Ultimate Boot CD for Windows, after I get this box up<BR>
and running again. I will either get that or BartPE. Thanks!<BR>
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I recovered the data from the NTFS partition this morning, so I am<BR>
ready to "learn by destroying". The consensus of opinion from Ross and<BR>
you is that I should bite the bullet and do it correctly. Wipe the HD<BR>
and do fresh installs. Time consuming it will be (especially<BR>
installing the Windows aps), but, I will have a better system and I<BR>
will learn. For several months, I've wanted to install/use the free<BR>
VMware Server, but I don't have space on the HD to do much with it<BR>
now. One of the suggestions, from Alain, was to have WinXP running<BR>
virtually, under CentOS. I am contemplating devoting about 75% of the<BR>
HD capacity to CentOS. Installing a lean WinXP in English, and dual<BR>
boot with CentOS, and then install VMware Server and install WinXP in<BR>
English, in virtualization.<BR>
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The "KISS" technique (fdisk /mbr, run the anti root kit program,<BR>
reinstall GRUB and restore grub.conf) is tempting and would probably<BR>
work, and would be much faster, but I still wouldn't have the kind of<BR>
system I will have with the more time consuming approach.<BR>
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All the ideas everyone who has responded to this thread have thrown<BR>
into the basket for consideration are deeply appreciated! Lanny<BR>
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