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Stuart Howard: |
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> I went brave and tried Alans method, I wanted a tidy disk :) |
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> Not to worry but for me [dont know my error ] it did not work and |
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> killed my XP install, so reverted back to method A essentially and |
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> reinstalled wingaming XP so all is fine now. |
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> I shall consider it a lesson to remember to save! up on primary |
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> partitions next time. Thanks all for trying. |
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Just for the future: |
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When changing the partition table of a disk that includes Windows the most |
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common problem ist that the NT bootloader (ntldr) doesn't find Windows any |
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longer (usually it tells you that it can't find hal.dll). |
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At this moment Windows is not brocken! You just have to edit your boot.ini. |
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Play around with it. Since ntldr can't see your Linux partitions properly the |
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logical setting might not be the correct one. |
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My advice: Keep these files on a floppy so you can change them easily without |
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writing to ntfs: |
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ntldr |
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boot.ini |
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ntdetect.com |
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maybe others in c:\ |
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