On 24/12/11 13:54, alan c wrote: > 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. Yeah its XP pro with SP2
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