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>Um, if you do this, you will more than likely destroy the filesystems as |
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>well, because the new partitions will not line up exactly with the old ones. |
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>Anyway I don't think this is the problem. Afterall, WinXP booted fine |
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>before on this drive with LBA disabled, so something else is up. If you |
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>already made the right changes to the boot.ini file, then I suspect that a |
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>"fixboot" from the recovery mode of the WinXP CD will be necessary. |
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>This should not overwrite the MBR, only the boot loader that is at the |
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>beginning of the windows partition. |
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>-Richard |
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there is no worry, writing new partition table give it the same values |
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(partition start, end, type, order) as before and not a single bit is lost |
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this is kind of fedora installer bug, since i have amd64 box i was moving |
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from mandrake to some more amd64 distro at that point, and befor gentoo i |
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checked fedora. and problems started when i upgraded bios. |
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