confusing XP installation problem
- From: fred <freaks@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 04 Sep 2006 13:31:02 +1000
Ok, here's the situation.
I have a machine with 3 disks & 2 DVD drives organised into a mish/mash of hardware
as follows (don't ask):
- a 200Mb fat13 boot partition C: on 40Gb IDE primary master disk with remaining space unused.
- a 40gb fat13 partition D: on 200Gb SATA disk, containing only programs and data. Remaining 160Gb
partitioned ntfs as X: with just data.
- a 18Gb fat13 partition E: on a 18Gb SCSI disk containing the Windows XP Home OS.
- a DVD drive Y: IDE secondary master
- a DVD drive Z: IDE secondary slave
Problem - The disk with the boot partition (C:) had a spectacular head crash and died.
Now I want to put a replacement 200Gb drive in its place on primary IDE master and create a
small boot partition C: on it like I had before and also format the remaining space as ext3
and put Linux on it as a dual booting OS.
I want to re-create the files necessary for XP to boot on the new C: partition and leave
the XP OS intact on drive E: without re-installing it. It is not important to be able to
transfer files between the two OSes, so that is not an issue.
How am I going to do this and what am I going to need? I have XP Home install CD, Windows 98 &
Windows 98SE install CDs, Ubuntu Linux install CD, no bootable floppies.
This computer can boot from a CD.
Thank you for your help.
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