[LBo] Re: Lost windows boot - grub

[gogo39(don)]

tim <tim at ...> writes:



> Also in the above listing of the menu.lst there are 2 windows partitions
> One is a Dell recovery partition and the other is the actual boot
> partition. The comment says it is on HDA5 but when I attempt to
> reinstall GRUB it puts it on hd0,2 not hd0,4 so I am not sure what is
> going on other than it simply does not work. I would like to copy my
> files from the winXP partition and then attempt a repair of windows. If
> all else fails I will simply wipe the winXP partition and reinstall XP.
> If it were not for things I need for work I would lose the XP
> altogether, but I am slowly investigating wine to see if it will fill
> the gap.


maybe this will help
if you can boot linux this guy did this

http://12078.net/grcnews/article.php?id=14429&group=grc.techtalk.linux#14429

        don