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| 822453 | 2009-10-20 18:06:00 | Have WXP pro and Ubuntu installed and playing with puppy. I feel I have somehow deleted a file that XP requires to boot. When I get to Vista loader choice for "Older version of windows" and clk it I boot into ubuntu.I did delete a file in my home folder which was a small file snf or something like that. |
kjaada (253) | ||
| 822454 | 2009-10-20 21:23:00 | If you have an XP CD First you need to fix your XP boot files support.microsoft.com this link covers that, so boot to your XP CD and run the recovery console. The commands are covered in the article but will be fixmbr www.microsoft.com fixboot www.microsoft.com and bootcfg /rebuild. support.microsoft.com method 3 on this page covers bootcfg. Once you have XP rebooting you will need to install and configure the GRUB bootloader from one of your Linux discs. I hope this is relevant to your issue. |
KarameaDave (15222) | ||
| 822455 | 2009-10-20 22:08:00 | Have WXP pro and Ubuntu installed and playing with puppy. I feel I have somehow deleted a file that XP requires to boot. When I get to Vista loader choice for "Older version of windows" and clk it I boot into ubuntu.I did delete a file in my home folder which was a small file snf or something like that. You're talking about XP but you say that there is a Vista Bootloader? Which bootloader are you using? GRUB or the windows bootloader? |
Blam (54) | ||
| 822456 | 2009-10-20 22:13:00 | I am using Grub but the Vista loader is there from a try out of W7 and I cant get rid of it. |
kjaada (253) | ||
| 822457 | 2009-10-20 22:15:00 | If you have an XP CD First you need to fix your XP boot files support.microsoft.com this link covers that, so boot to your XP CD and run the recovery console. The commands are covered in the article but will be fixmbr www.microsoft.com fixboot www.microsoft.com and bootcfg /rebuild. support.microsoft.com method 3 on this page covers bootcfg. Once you have XP rebooting you will need to install and configure the GRUB bootloader from one of your Linux discs. I hope this is relevant to your issue. I think this will be the solution. Will see in a day or so when I get back to my home puter which has the problem. Thanks |
kjaada (253) | ||
| 822458 | 2009-10-21 08:12:00 | Yes - once you have carried out the above, GRUB will have gone. You will need to: 1. boot to the Ubuntu CD and then check that your /boot/grub/menu.lst boot configuration file is correct. 2. Use the "sudo chroot" command to change the root of the file system away from the CD-ROM to the hard disk file system (from memory this step is required). 3. Use the "sudo grub-install" command (e.g. grub-install /dev/sda) to reinstall GRUB. |
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