Re: Clean reinstall of XP to boot partitionin a multiboot situation

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Why ghost a corrupt partition. Backup your important files. Disconnect
other drive from the computer. Reinstall the OS. Reconnect the other drive.
Reboot. edit the boot.ini to include the other boot partitions.

"frinehrt" <frinehrt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Posted this a few days ago, got a solution, what is general concensus that
> it
> will work.....
> ORIGINAL POST:
> I have a multiboot configuration, XP Pro on my main boot partition
> and two other OSs on a separate drive in two distinct partitions. My
> Boot partition has become corrupted (trying to load Visual xxx 2005
> Express software), my .Net frameworks are corrupted and cause other
> apps I use to fail. I've tried to reload them, purge and reload them,
> EVERYTHING I CAN THINK OF To GET IT BACK! If I reformat and load XP
> on my boot partition and therefore wipe out my multiboot config can I
> easily recreate it by editing/restoring boot.ini? I have backed up
> all partitions in preparation of this but wanted some assurance I can
> access the other two partitions after I do the deed.
>
> Thanks!
>
> PARAPHRASED SOLUTION
>
> 1. Back up first drive (boot partition with XP) with Norton Ghost as a
> drive image, store on removable disk
> 2. a.I should then boot into one of my other partitions (located on my
> second drive)
> b.Then wipe my first drive clean (delete everything), except for the root
> files that control
> NTs booting and the page files etc: (C:\Boot.ini, Bootsect.dos,
> hiberfil.sys,
> ntbootdd.sys, detect.com,
> Ntldr, Pagefile.sys)
> c. Edit boot.ini (saving original) and remove the reference to the old
> partition on C, set timeout to 0
> 4. ReInstall XP on C but DO NOT Format the drive
>
> Thanks for your feedback in advance.
>


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