Re: cant recover XP installation

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Hi John,

I found that on my system, the SATA Disk disappears. I have my operating
systems on two IDE Disks and using the SATA Disk as storage.

Why did you start messing with the Boot Loaders at all? Which boot
loader were you using to boot into each operating system?

Which motherboard are you using?

Are you sure you screwed up your boot loaders, or did the SATA Disk
disappear during a Linux Distribution, therefore messing up everything?

Have you created Drive Partition images?


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"John DeStefano" <john.destefano@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I have a machine with several OSes installed on a single SATA disk
(XP, Vista, Linux), and in updating a Linux distribution, I somehow
screwed up my boot loaders. Previously, I had a grub loader, Vista's
loader, and XP's loader all playing nicely together in order to boot
into the different partitions. Now I can't boot to any.

I've tried the Vista recovery method (boot Vista DVD and let it repair
the MBR, claims to do so but nothing happens), and a few methods using
my XP CD (fixmbr, bootcfg list|rebuild), but none worked. Now, I'm
trying to do a "recovery" install over the previous XP installation,
but the installation program is saying that the XP partition "does not
contain a Windows-compatible partition." I'm guessing this means that
the partition table is bad? Is there any way to fix this?

Thank you.



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