On 24/12/11 13:39, paul sutton wrote: > 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,
It is possible that the actual XP version used might have be significant, all XP is not the same, it was produced over a long period. For example, early versions do not immediately require activation, but later versions do. -- alan cocks Ubuntu user FSF #9005 -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
