hi paul, thanx for yr advice (very clear & logical :) ) - XP now starts fine. i was worried i was gonna have to reformat my hard-drive!
cheers, sam
Not a problam. I got to know linux's fdisk quite well last year when Partition Magic fouled up badly (primary partition inside extended!) and I had to manually move partition table entries around. by destroying old ones and creating new ones where the old ones were. Hairy to say the least, but it's a testimony to the power of the program that everything turned out well.
It's nice to see that your situation played out as nicely
-- Paul Wilkins
