On Nov 18, 2007 10:41 PM, Lanny Marcus lannyma@gmail.com wrote:

On 18 November 2007, Alain Spineux aspineux at gmail.com wrote:

<snip> >BartPE found that WinME was installed on that box and it died there. >If you have any ideas about how I can make the BartPE CD, on a non >WInME box, they will be much appreciated! TIA, Lanny

Making the BartPE CD on a WinME box is apparently impossible. Here's what it says on this URL: http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/faq/#12 "Can Windows 9x/ME be used to build BartPE? No, absolutely not!"

This box is dead in the water, with respect to booting WinXP, because of the corrupted or missing user32.dll. We only have this one box with WinXP, so unless there's another solution for me to rescue WinXP, I will need to format and reinstall WinXP and CentOS5. TIA, Lanny

Some other idea:

- ask someone with a winxp to build a bart-pe for you.

- linux can mount windows partitions, vfat without problem, ntfs with a beta driver (moreover it is recommended to use it in read-only, but you have no choice). Not sure it is easy to find ntfs module with read-write enable for your centos.

- Other way, install vmware-server (that's free and not too difficult to install) and install a winxp on it, then from this virtual-machine, repair your native XP partition. Or maybe just configure a virtual disk AND mount your physical drive as a secon drive and then boot this dual drive virtual machine with the original XP CD and try to repair it that way without install XP for real.

- OR find (google) what is wrong with your partition table (if this is the problem).

Regards

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