[Opensource] Repairng windows on a dual boot machine

[Roland Gesthuizen]

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.

Regards Roland

2009/3/12 Pia Waugh <pia at waughpartners.com.au>

> Hi all,
>
> <quote who="Phil Brown">
>
> > > 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.
>
> Remove the Linux disk temporarily and you should be able to run the repair
> from within Windows just fine. Then put the linux disk back in and to
> repair
> grub simple boot with a linux boot disk (like the Ubuntu disk) and then you
> can run "grub-install /dev/sda" or whatever the first disk is. See this for
> more details:
>
>
> http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/html_node/Installing-GRUB-using-grub_002dinstall.html
>
> That should work ok :) I had to do this for a client recently who had a
> broken Windows disk and a working Linux disk.
>
> Cheers,
> Pia
>
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