repair win xp

[John Heinen]

hermanaa wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-01-05 at 08:57 -0500, Bart Silverstrim wrote:
>   
>> steve wrote:
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>>> John Heinen wrote:
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>>>> Matthew Flaschen wrote:
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>>>>> John Heinen wrote:
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>>>>>           
>>>>>> Wind xp crashed.Tried to restart with win xp disk but machine want to
>>>>>> start ubuntu
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>>>>>>             
>>>>> 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.
>>     
>
> XP (XP Professional in my case) is not following standard
>  'boot from CD' behavior:
>  --to start from XP bootable CD, you have to touch a key.
>  --without touching a key, the CD in the CD-drive will be ignored,
>  the system (with XP CD in drive) will try to start the XP OS
>  instead.
>
> I used that behavior to get XP started when GRUB did not show XP
>  in the menu.
> My incomplete GRUB was the result of a failed Ubuntu installation.
>
> Herman in PHL.
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Thanks Herman, Actually I /have been lucky so far by not succeding in
the restoration of win xp until I first recovered the files out of win
xp. That I have to learn yet/ . Paul Kaplin mentioned to recover the
files by Dolphin, I don't know how to do that either, I am still
learning. I have also found an article by Microsoft how to restore xp[
it's a bit complicated, but first I need to remove those files, tel me
how. Thanks John H.