klaupacius Posted October 18, 2005 Share Posted October 18, 2005 Hi hope everyones having a good day. This will prob be an easy answer for somebody who can laugh at my stupidity. I got a new harddrive recently and installed Xp on it moved all mny stuff over whatver and was hoping to use my old drive that had Xp on it for my new OSx trial. Well I partioned it with PM and overid some boot files. Now my other XP install isnt being recognized. I'm not sure the best way to fix the boot situation. I have to give HHUUGGEE props to everybody here these seem like great forums and an excellent project. Windows has no chance when I'm on here (not much of a gamer) I was searching around but I thought someone could give me a quick hand, I'm not sure if I need a boot loader like Lilo or need to play with the boot.ini file on my XP system drive... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrJägermeister Posted October 19, 2005 Share Posted October 19, 2005 Well I partioned it with PM and overid some boot files. Now my other XP install isnt being recognized. If you've destroyed the partition you can't boot anymore this partition. To see if the partition already exist type fdisk -l, if need you need to change something type cfdisk /dev/hda (change /dev/hda with your partition) in a shell of a Linux live system, here's one with only 50MB: http://www.inside-security.de/insert_en.html If the partition still exist (if you don't destroy anything with PM) you can try to boot it with - Grub (can boot everething): http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/ - or use Gujin from the Ultimate boot cd: http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/ Gujin is not so good as Grub, but for booting a Windows quickly via the UBCD it's good enough (you need to enable to write onto partition) Good luck Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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