Re: HELP- Grub problem, I can't load WInXP SOLVED

From: Andy (andrew_at_shadwell.amoeba.org)
Date: 09/27/05

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Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2005 16:20:56 +0100

    On Tuesday 27 September 2005 12:42, Tom Pfeifer wrote:
    > Since your WinXP on /dev/hda1 is a FAT32 partition, one thing that might
    > work is to use the backup boot sector that is kept on FAT32 file systems
    > to restore the WinXP boot sector on /dev/hda1.
    >
    > dd if=/dev/hda1 of=/dev/hda1 bs=512 count=1 skip=6
    >
    > The above dd command will read the 7th sector (or sector 6) of the
    > partition, and then write it to the 1st sector (or sector 0). The 7th
    > sector is where the backup boot sector is stored on FAT32. The "skip"
    > means it will skip over the first 6 sectors when reading from the
    > partition - since you are interested in the 7th sector.
    >
    > GRUB should have only overwritten the 1st sector of the partition.
    >
    > Tom

    Tom, I cannot thank you enough! Your instructions worked flawlessly. I can't
    believe that your dd command managed to fix something that Microsoft's own
    fixboot and fixmbr commands could not. You have saved me a lot of time and
    money, thank you very much.

    Regards,
    Andy 

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