Compaq is pissing me off

Sarunas sarunas at mail.saabnet.com
Sun Jun 15 16:01:20 EDT 2008


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TARogue wrote:
> I have a Compaq Presario SR1620NX running Windows XP. I used Acronis
> Disk Director Suite 10.0 to repartition my harddrive and installed
> Fedora Core 9. Once it was fully installed and configured I rebooted
> back to the XP partition. I was immediately redirected to "System
> Recovery"
> 
> I ended having to boot back to Linux, mount the NTFS filesystem, backup 
> the entire partition and do a complete wipe & reinstall. Once that was 
> done, I "rescued" linux by reinstalling grub. With grub in place i can 
> get back to Linux (YAY!) but Windows is demanding a System Restore 
> again.
> 
> The reason I'm blaming Compaq is because I've not had this problem on 
> ANY of my other XP/Fedora dual boot systems. Can anyone tell me how I 
> can get this to work?
> 
My guess would be that grub entry for Windows XP is actually an entry
for the system rescue partition. Check your partitions with e.g. 'fdisk
- -l' and /boot/grub/menu.lst entries with 'chainloader +1'. The root
(hdx,y) should be pointing to your Windows partition, not to the rescue
one. In several cases I had Linux installer configure the two for grub
as 'Windows NT' (which actually is just a system rescue partition ) and
'MS Windows XP etc.'

But yes, unless you need Windows specifically for USB/Audio or some
devices not supported in Linux, the virtualization e.g. Virtualbox may
make more sense, than maintaining a dual boot setup.

Sarunas Burdulis
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