Chances are, you'll have to kill Mandriva to be able to fix XP. You need not a set of restore disks, but a retail XP disk to fix the MBR.
Good luck. Cheers, George -----Original Message----- From: Stuart Friedman <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Fri, 23 Jan 2009 2:22 pm Subject: [Thinkpad] Where to start?? XP problem on a dual boot T43 Computer T43 2687-D4U, 15" Flexview XP SP 3 with all updates, Mandriva 2009 OK, About two weeks ago, faced with ongoing and unsolvable wireless problems in Windows, I reinstalled Windows. Over the course of a week, I got all my essentials back and life was good. Then, suddenly two days ago, things froze while in Windows. I was trying to access a music file at the time in Media Player. When I re-booted, things froze at the XP splash screen. When I put in the rescue disk I can look in events log and get two different errors, one which corresponds to the time of the freeze: RRU Co create Instance error -2147024894 -- Stuart Friedman Montpelier, VT USA 802.522.6228 _______________________________________________ Thinkpad mailing list [email protected] http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad _______________________________________________ Thinkpad mailing list [email protected] http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad
