dual boot Kubuntu 8.04/xp pro sp3(repair)

[ray burke]

On 7/13/09, John Pierce <john.j35 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
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>  > 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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John,

Does a repair corrupt the grub or not? and if so I see in those
instructions to repair
the grub and see the easy way is to do a creating a boot floppy? but
does not state
in these instructions on how to?

ray