How to help? was Re: Serious reservations about FC2 release on 5/18

[Ron Bellomo]

On Mon, 2004-05-17 at 07:27, Law Horne wrote:
> Ok I posted this A little while ago. But since everyone was still
> arguing about this issue no one seem to notice. So I do not know if it
> helps or not. SO I'M REPOSTING it. 
> 
> 
> > Has no one simply tried this? 
> > 
> > For Windows XP, boot from the install CD and enter the Recovery
> > Console.
> > Then issue the command: 
> > Code:
> > bootcfg /rebuild
> > 
> > 
> > This fixes the bootloader for windows xp. But I do not know if it will
> > work in this situation.
> > I cannot test this as I do not have this problem.
> > 
> > 
> > Law
> 
> Let me know if it works or not. I hope it helps.
> 
> Law
> 
> 

This did *NOT* fix anything on my system. All of the repair options I
tried with WinXP 'seemed' to work properly. I tried Fixboot, fixmbr,
bootcfg, and even fdisk /mbr... But when trying to boot back into XP it
still could not find the OS.

BTW, this problem box has two 120GB hdd's. This box I am using now has
two 40GB drives, and has not exhibited the problem. Dual booting with
Win XP has worked fine. Does the drive size have anything to do with
this?

Luckily, I was of a mind to go strictly linux on that box anyway.
Bye-bye XP!

Ron