Or put windows back as a virtual machine inside Ubuntu. It can run very nice inside Virtual Box and saves rebooting to access windows applications or rebuilding when migrating your windows desktop.<br><br>Regards Roland<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">2009/3/12 Pia Waugh <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pia@waughpartners.com.au">pia@waughpartners.com.au</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Hi all,<br>
<br>
<quote who="Phil Brown"><br>
<div class="im"><br>
> > A little help, I have a machine that I has two hardrives in it. One with<br>
> > Ubuntu the other runs XP. The XP install is suffering random reboots and<br>
> > so I want to run a repair on it. However when I try to repair the<br>
> > installation it want's to write to the ubuntu drive which is the<br>
> > primary. Due to the fact that the primary drive is Linux and secondary<br>
> > is windows it does not allow me to repair the install.<br>
> > Any hints or tips on how to fix it as I really don't want to replace the<br>
> > Linux drive.<br>
> ><br>
> > My only thought so far is to remove the Linux hard drive from the<br>
> > machine reinstall windows on the other drive and rebuild grub.<br>
<br>
</div>Remove the Linux disk temporarily and you should be able to run the repair<br>
from within Windows just fine. Then put the linux disk back in and to repair<br>
grub simple boot with a linux boot disk (like the Ubuntu disk) and then you<br>
can run "grub-install /dev/sda" or whatever the first disk is. See this for<br>
more details:<br>
<br>
<a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/html_node/Installing-GRUB-using-grub_002dinstall.html" target="_blank">http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/html_node/Installing-GRUB-using-grub_002dinstall.html</a><br>
<br>
That should work ok :) I had to do this for a client recently who had a<br>
broken Windows disk and a working Linux disk.<br>
<br>
Cheers,<br>
Pia<br>
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