Re: Problems reinstalling grub/lilo (they always hang at boot time ...)

On Fri, 28 Apr 2006 22:35:24 +0200, Olaf wrote:

Douglas Mayne wrote:

On Fri, 28 Apr 2006 00:10:55 +0200, Olaf wrote:

Douglas Mayne wrote:

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Douglas,

your suspicion was true, the XP bootdisk was defect! After I fixed it by
running CHKDSK from the XP boot disk I can now boot into both OSes again!

I've seen your post on the GRUB boot disk, and I'll also get that, since I'm
sure it will be useful in the future.

Thanks again for your support. Without your help I may have winded up
installing one or both OSes. That would have really been a waste of time.

I'm now trying to figure out, why my boot drive was corrupt, but this is not
a linux issue :) Strangely my mouse does not always work when booting into
XP ...

Olaf

I'm glad you were able to track it down.

[OT] My daughter's boyfriend wasn't as lucky when his laptop suddenly
refused to boot last Sunday. I hope I am making progress telling
people that XP is not the only game in town. He might have been able to
use an XP setup CD in rescue mode like you did, except for the fact his
system was sold without one. The setup files were on the harddisk itself
only. He also had a restore CD, which could be used as the method of
last resort, to reset the system with the initial ghost image. He was
able to use Slax to get his files for school before sending it back for
repair under warranty. It's not unusual for GNU/Linux to come in and save
the day when pursuing viruses/rootkits/etc. Final word: make backups.
ntfsclone is a very good tool.


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Douglas Mayne
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