Re: Cannot BOOT into XP PRO after installing & removing Ubuntu 7.1

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"NoBootIdea" <NoBootIdea@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Yes, if your BIOS allows you to boot off the flash disk! Remember
to include boot.ini and make sure that "x" in both instances of rdisk(x)
refers to your hard disk! If this does not work then you could burn
a boot CD on somebody's machine that has a floppy disk drive.
I recommend you use a CD/RW . . .


Thanks so much Pegasus for taking the time to help me.
I used the LiveCD version of "Gparted" to set the flag on the Win XP
partition as bootable.
After that I was able to boot into Win XP (it went through a "Repair"
installation using the CD, but I ended up with the same original
configuration without having to re-install the other applications).

Thanks again and wish you a Happy New 2008!

Thanks for the feedback. I suspect that what you call the "bootable
flag" is the "active flag" that a boot partition must have. Booting
the machine with a floppy boot disk would have revealed this too,
hence my reason for suggesting it.


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