In a moment of lessened attention, I executed 'setup (hd0,0)' in grub, rather than the 'setup (hd0)' that I intended to use. The problem now is that I can't boot XP that's installed on the (hd0,0) partition. It says Disk error\nPress any key to retry.
I have tried the XP fixboot utility to rewrite the bootsector on that drive, but to no avail. Is there a way I can undo the changes that grub made to this partition?
Not that I know of to 'undo' something written to a disk easily. It is possible that some sort of data recovery tool would be possible to recover the previous boot record.
When I had done the same thing last year, I believe I had run both fixboot and fixmbr on the xp recovery cd (not neccessarily that order, but i do not believe it would matter). Then I booted off a *nix boot cd and redid the grub installation properly.
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