[Opensource] Repairng windows on a dual boot machine

[Fawcett - Le Rossignol, Jamie E]

How about remove Windows and use WINE.

Your thought is correct.  Windows needs to have to primary drive, and it
needs to be in the first 100 MB (? Not sure) for the MBR (Master Boot
Record) to work properly.  Commonly a setup will install windows first
with control of the primary, then add linux on top.  It's worked for me
most of the time, but that was a few years back with Red Hat/Fedora
Linux.

A windows repair may work, but I think it's likely to damage linux.

Or try switching drive (Master to Slave, etc) then repair MBR/GRUB.

Jamie

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[mailto:opensource-bounces at edulists.com.au] On Behalf Of WEIR Andrew
Sent: Thursday, 12 March 2009 11:56 AM
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Subject: [Opensource] Repairng windows on a dual boot machine

Dear all,
A little help, I have a machine that I has two hardrives in it. One with
Ubuntu the other runs XP. The XP install is suffering random reboots and
so I want to run a repair on it. However when I try to repair the
installation it want's to write to the ubuntu drive which is the
primary. Due to the fact that the primary drive is Linux and secondary
is windows it does not allow me to repair the install.
Any hints or tips on how to fix it as I really don't want to replace the
Linux drive.

My only thought so far is to remove the Linux hard drive from the
machine reinstall windows on the other drive and rebuild grub.

Regards
Andrew 




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