On Nov 18, 2007 10:54 PM, Lanny Marcus <lannyma at gmail.com> wrote: > On Nov 18, 2007 4:38 PM, MrKiwi <mrkiwi at 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 :-) > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > -- Alain Spineux aspineux gmail com May the sources be with you