On Nov 18, 2007 4:38 PM, MrKiwi mrkiwi@gmail.com wrote:
The problem is the mbr - i had the same problem trying to put a replacement sata drive into a machine - it had previously had centos on it, and i was trying to install xp.
The solution for me was to use a dos boot disk and run fdisk /mbr however im not sure how that will affect your dual boot situation.
Anyway ... the mbr issue will get you going in the right direction. Apparently xp cd gets hung if it cant make sense of the mbr, even if other disks exist with window-happy mbrs.
Mr. Kiwi: Thank you! I have a feeling this is the only path. I am going to wait until the long Thanksgiving weekend and if another possible solution doesn't appear, I think I will try what you suggested, before I wipe the drive. If I fdisk /mbr and am then able to restore the user32.dll file in WinXP, hopefully, after that, I could reinstall GRUB and have my dual boot box working again. If not, probably I will need to wipe the HD and install both OS's again. Lanny
On Nov 18, 2007 10:54 PM, Lanny Marcus lannyma@gmail.com wrote:
On Nov 18, 2007 4:38 PM, MrKiwi mrkiwi@gmail.com wrote:
The problem is the mbr - i had the same problem trying to put a replacement sata drive into a machine - it had previously had centos on it, and i was trying to install xp.
The solution for me was to use a dos boot disk and run fdisk /mbr
This was not solving my problem, but we are not sure this is the same
however im not sure how that will affect your dual boot situation.
Anyway ... the mbr issue will get you going in the right direction. Apparently xp cd gets hung if it cant make sense of the mbr, even if other disks exist with window-happy mbrs.
Mr. Kiwi: Thank you! I have a feeling this is the only path. I am going to wait until the long Thanksgiving weekend and if another possible solution doesn't appear, I think I will try what you suggested, before I wipe the drive. If I fdisk /mbr and am then able to restore the user32.dll file in WinXP, hopefully, after that, I could reinstall GRUB and have my dual boot box working again. If not,
yes boot in rescue mode and use grub-install /dev/?sda?
probably I will need to wipe the HD and install both OS's again. Lanny
Yes and keep on hand a bart-pe boot disk, this time :-)
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