dual boot Kubuntu 8.04/xp pro sp3(repair)

[John Pierce]

On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 2:20 AM, ray burke<rayburke30 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 1:25 PM, John Pierce<john.j35 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 3:55 PM, ray burke<rayburke30 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Can anyone help,
>>> as I have dual boot Kubuntu 8.04/xp pro sp3 that uses grub, and I need to do a
>>> repair on my xp pro drive c, but have been warned that if I do it it
>>> might destroy
>>> my grub, and if it does how do I repair it, has anyone out there faced the same
>>> problem?
>>>
>>> ray
>>> ps I am a newbie at this
>>>
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>>
>> What kind of repair do you have to make on your windows partition?
>>
>>
>>
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>
> John,
>
> I have two seperate hard drives 80gb xp pro sp3 drive c and 40gb
> Kubuntu drive d(but dosent
> show when booted in xp pro) these are dual booted thru grub.
> the reapir I want to do is to fix any errors I have made on the xp pro
> system in the last
> 1 year, as is hen I last done it when I was dual booted with xp pro
> and win 2000 pro?
> the reapair is when I load the xp pro cd when I first boot up and
> selet upgrade/and reply yes
> to ulca and type the poduct key and then select the rapair, and it
> then loads new xp pro with all
> my old data?
>
> understand
>
> ray
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Have a look at this page, especially at Backup, Repairing and Reinstalling GRUB:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/GrubHowto

This should help you reinstall grub after windows overwrites the MBR.

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