dual boot Kubuntu 8.04/xp pro sp3(repair)

[Willy Hamra]

2009/7/13 ray burke <rayburke30 at gmail.com>:
> 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
>>  >
>>  > 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?
>

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RecoveringUbuntuAfterInstallingWindows#Overwriting%20the%20Windows%20bootloader
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