Re: grub error

Well, my system boots up fine now, but I was just wondering if this method
makes a good backup disk to supplement the MSDOS backup one?

So if windows didn't boot up, I presume this method would be the first way
to try, and if that fails, maybe you'd need the MSDOS boot disk. Is that
correct?

cornedbeef007-groups@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
On Jan 17, 10:16 am, "Bill in Co." <not_really_h...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Would this also work for WinXP Home (just by changing "Professional" to
"Home" below)?

No need to change "Professional" to "Home". It's only a label for a
human to read.

OK. It's just a text label then.

I'm curious as to how it works, if you can't even boot up in WinXP
normally.
Just looking at the lines below, it seems (to me) to just be attempting
to
access the HD as would normally happen except that it is using a clean
version of those two files ntldr and ntdetect.com. So is that basically
it?


The floppy is running the bootloader, and it uses the info in boot.ini
file to find/start Windows.
The 3 choices you'll see are only an attempt to cover all bases of
where your particular Windows installation might be.
It's most likely that only 1 will work, depending on what has happened
to your disk, and whether you've attempted a repair install and
actually ended up with a parallel install.
Make the floppy, and give it a try. You've really got nothing to lose,
and it just might start Windows.

Good Luck.


.

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