Re: [gentoo-user] grub messed up XP partition

[Vincent van de Camp]

Thanks for the advice. Tried it, but it didn't work. Even reinstalling 
can't continue because after rebooting I get this error. Is there maybe 
another lowlevel disk format that Windows is expecting to see?

It's a double boot partition. I can see that there's a bootsect.dos, I 
don't remember that there has to be an .nt (or whatever) counterpart to 
that, but if there has to be, it's not here...

Are there other possibilities, or is this a case of backing up (all data 
is present and can be read/copied/moved from another XP setup) and 
remove partition create partition and make the best of it?

Thanks!
Vincent
Chris I wrote:

On 2003.08.17 21:12, Vincent van de Camp wrote:
[...]
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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