On 24/12/11 12:10, David Smith wrote: > I have supplied a second hand PC to a friend, dual booting XP and Ubuntu > 10.10 from one HD. Somehow, he's made a mess of his XP and I need to do > either a repair-over-the-top install or a full XP wipe and reload. Since it > is the XP registry file that is corrupted, I suspect that I would need to do > a full W&R. > > If I do the above, it would (I think) replace the GRUB boot/MBR with XP's > loader. My question is, could I then boot off a live CD and "sudo grub > update" to reinstall and rebuild GRUB as easy as that?? Or is it more > involved? It's a big enough pain that XP is borked. > > Advice appreciated. > > Dave Smith, lowly MS repair technician and Ubuntu 10.10 aficionado. > i Have just reinstelled windows, and selefcted the repair option, and this reinstalled windows ontop and left all my files / data intact and surprisingly left the mbr intact too.
I think you select install then repair, Paul -- -- http://www.zleap.net Join the revolution, switch to Ubuntu http://www.ubuntu.com -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
