You shouldn't need to recover the bootrecord, in fact you should be able to set grub up to boot your XP partition, not sure how you have your partiation table layed out (give us an fdisk -l /dev/hda).
(AFAIK you can't install XP on any partition higher than 0 anyway) But something like this in your grub.conf may do the trick: -- # For booting Windows NT or Windows95 title Windows NT / Windows 95 boot menu rootnoverify (hd0,0) makeactive chainloader +1 -- also man grub also have a look thru the grub.conf.sample provided. It would be wise to mount and backup what you can from the XP partition if you are worried. -- ooM. On Mon, 2003-08-18 at 15:19, Vincent van de Camp wrote: > 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. > > > > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
