[Opensource] Repairng windows on a dual boot machine

[Phil Brown]

I think that's the better idea. Windows works best on the primary drive - it
likes to be in charge!

Phil Brown
WellingtonSC

On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 11:56 AM, WEIR Andrew <
andrew.weir at thomascarr.vic.edu.au> wrote:

> 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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