Re: [opensuse] GRUB will not boot up second windows partition

steve wrote:
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Marc Chamberlin wrote:

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| So I am lost and confused... Can anyone offer me advise on how to get
| this stubborn boot loader to do what I want it to? (That is to allow me
| to boot up my new second Win XP?) I REALLY do NOT want to have to
| reinstall SuSE as that would be a LOT of work for me!!!
|
| Marc...
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|

I would just format the "old" xp partition, sounds like xp doesnt know
what mbr to use, or remove the grub entry for the corrupted xp. been a
while since ive had to deal with a dual boot, thats what I would do,
theres no sense in keeping it right?



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Steve Reilly

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Thanks Steve for your suggestion... Eventually I will delete this old XP partition but first I need to recover many files from it an move them over to the new XP partition. This old XP partition seems to be readable, just not bootable. So I want to hang on to it long enough to accomplish that first..

Marc...
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