repair win xp

[Bart Silverstrim]

steve wrote:
> John Heinen wrote:
>> Matthew Flaschen wrote:
>>> John Heinen wrote:
>>>   
>>>> Wind xp crashed.Tried to restart with win xp disk but machine want to
>>>> start ubuntu
>>>>     
>>> Are you sure the machine's BIOS is set to boot first from CD?
>>>
>>> Matt Flaschen
>>>
>>>   
>> Yes as strange as it may be, ubuntu's grub takes over execpt if I use
>> another linux cd for example linux mint then it will start mint linmux
>> but a win xp cd is plainly ignored?
>>
> does the xp disc boot on any other computer?  xp sounds like a bad cd to
> me, if you can get other cd's to boot on the same computer OR, its not
> an install cd.

If you're saying that you're putting in the XP cd and it's trying to 
boot grub from the hard disk instead, and the BIOS is set to boot from 
the CD before the hard disk, then either the CD is bad or the CD drive 
is bad.