I have been dual booting win XP and Kubuntu for about a year on my laptop. Windows has been very unreliable and now the file system on the HDD is corrupt. Normally, one could run chkdsk to fix it, but chkdsk doesn't work when you have a boot-loader like grub on the disk. Now I can't fix my windows file system, so it is getting more unreliable as time passes.
As far as I can tell, the only way to fix it is to restore the master boot record for windows, which kills my linux install. Once I fix windoze, I need to reinstall grub, but that means I need to reinstall linux (again, AFAIK) because grub doesn't install until the end of the linux install process. If you don't have to have windoze and ntfs, forget dual boot and go linux 100%. TD -- tyler_durden ------------------------------------------------------------------------ tyler_durden's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2701 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=48998 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/unix
