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Offline gauravbajaj

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Cant Boot XP With Linux
« on: January 13, 2005, 08:05:35 AM »
Hi Grp,
I need your help,
I have a quiestion, I have installed 3 operating-system in my System , Win98, XP & Red Hat Linux 9(GRUB loader is there)
Actually it gives me trouble.
First I have installed Win 98 , & After that i installed Win XP , i worked fine but when I installed Linux then , it will show me 2 options, Dos & Redhat Linux , when i goes to Dos it have 2 options in it Win98 & Second is for Xp , Win 98 is working fine but when i try to boot XP it will give error like this
missing file... try to reinstall the file(I don't remember the file name)

Could anyone help me , how can i boot XP.

Gaurav

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« Reply #1 on: January 13, 2005, 10:41:50 AM »
Boot to ur winxp cd. Type in the console mode:

"fixmbr"

then type  

"fixboot"

Warning, this will overwrite ur Linux boot manager. U will not be able to boot into linux. Therefore u need to reinstall ur linux boot loader