Re: Is it safe to reinstall XP when Red Hat is running fine?

[bob <bobk71 hamiltoncom net>]

On Thu, 2003-05-29 at 02:38, Nigel Wade wrote:
> Albert DE WINT wrote:
> > I barely dare to ask this question, since this list is not supposed to
> > handle XP items.
> > 
> > Yesterday, I unfragmented my old XP partition.  I would have dumped it,
> > but my kids like playing games on it.
> > 
> > Today XP refuses to boot.  It fails to run "autochck", some file seems
> > to be gone.  So it hangs, reporting an unrecoverable system error;
> > initialization unexpectedly aborted. So, it's dead, amen...
> > 
> > I tried to "repair" the situation, using the M$ installation CD.  It has
> > an option to do a "repair", but I fail to understand it's lingo. 
> > It even has an option to fix the MBR, obviously, I don't trust that.
> > 
> > Now I wonder if it would be safe to reinstall XP from scratch. 
> > Probably, I will loose all data on that XP partition, to my son's
> > regret. I may not have another choice.
> > 
> > I would hate to ruin my perfectly running RED HAT partition by
> > reinstalling XP. If only I could repair the existing XP crap.
> > 
> > Can someone please help me out of this confusing situation.
> > 
> > Thanks a lot.
> > 
> > Albert
> > 
> > 
>   I had the same prob with missing files and did a reinstall, and yes when you do 
do a reinstall make sur you do have a floppy boot disk no matter how you
do your install because xp does ha ve a hatered for boot loaders. lol
:-)