On Thursday 12 July 2007 09:20, pat wrote: > On Tue, 10 Jul 2007 19:51:30 +0100, Mick wrote
> > fixmbr will replace GRUB's boot code in the mbr with ntldr's (WinXP) > > . fixboot will replace the partition boot sector code with WinXP's. > > You'll need to run the former on the drive and the latter on the > > partition in which the WinXP installation existed. Not sure if you > > would need to run fixboot on your recovery partition, but I don't > > know how your 'recovery partition' works. Does it contain a > > complete image of your WinXP partition? Usually, the conventional > > WinXP recovery partition only contains certain libs & configuration > > files, not a complete installation. > > This one contains full WinXP install ... :-\ In the future you may want to have a look at partimage. I always create an image after I install MS Windows on a machine. I set passwds, run all MS Windows upgrades, shut down all unnecessary services, close open ports, configure the firewall, install any drivers and then burn an image which is my back-2-basics backup. I always keep users' data files on separate partition(s) and these are backed up separately. Should things go south in the future, I format the partition and upload the image to it. Then it's simply a matter of reinstalling applications. In this way, I do not have to a)have MS Windows on the first partition, or even the first disk; b)hose my Gentoo installation because MS Windows proprietary recovery solutions are disrespectful of any other OS, or prior installation; c)hose Grub which is significantly superior to NTLDR; d)mess up previous MS Windows OS installations (e.g. DOS, Win98, Win2K) because WinXP overwrites their boot partition and bootfiles. -- Regards, Mick
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