<font color='black' size='2' face='Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif'>On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 23:12, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:clintin@linuxmail.org">clintin@linuxmail.org</a>></span> wrote:<br> <font color="black" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> <div style="font-family: arial,helvetica; font-size: 10pt; color: black;"> <div id="AOLMsgPart_3_92cfdbcd-6b10-4423-92e1-358b05d6db54"> <div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"> <font color="black" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><font size="2"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">On the second install, it failed at the Grub install and charged quantity one destroyed Windows XP partition for trying. Attempted a retry on the grub install without restarting, it did not see the Windows XP partition any more but did install grub successfully. This was all on test system and I have a copy of the Windows XP partition squirreled away someplace.<br> <br> </font></font></font>--<br> ubuntu-users mailing list<br> <a href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a><br> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a target="_blank" href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users</a><br> <br> </blockquote></div> <br> <div><br> </div> <div>Have you installed some huge commercial softwares that use the Macrovision (vendor of InstallShield) FlexNet anti-piracy technology like Adobe CS3-5 or newer AutoCADs in your XP? It's a shame that under such conditions Grub2 1.99 will ruin your first partition if it's formatted using NTFS.<br> <br> Interesting that Grub2 1.99 would be released to the public with that known problem and risk. One more pfennig deposited.<br> <br> This particular bug is not listed in the release notes or know bugs. :-( People need to be warned. This dual boot configuration had been used to test installations of Ubuntu 10.10 and other Linux's without problem. Don't know if I have Adobe FlexNet but I do know that my last CS version was 2 but I doubt that it was installed on this test partition, who knows, can't go back now and figure out what it had installed without doing a restore.<br> </div> <div><br> </div> <div>See <a target="_blank" href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/730225">https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/730225</a> - <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'UbuntuBeta Regular',Ubuntu,'Bitstream Vera Sans','DejaVu Sans',Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><a target="_blank" href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/730225" style="color: rgb(0, 51, 170); text-decoration: none;">grub-install trashes ntfs partition when sector 32 of the hard disk is occupied by Adobe FlexNet</a></span> for details.</div> <div><br> </div> <div>Workaround: boot up your PC with a Windows 7 installation CD and then execute</div> <div>chkdsk c: /f</div> <div><br> </div> <div>Vista or XP CDs might be of no use due to restriction to theirs' chdksk utility.<br> <br> <i>Tried XP CD, ran chkdsk twice, once with /P and then with /R, both times it reported unrecoverable.<br> <br> Tried Win 7 Ultimate, it couldn't even find a Windows Operating system<br> <br> Will have to find that backup that I have someplace... if I want to recover.<br> <br> </i>Just found out something else, Natty wouldn't pull an DHCP connection this AM but when I changed it to my primary network router, it pulled DHCP just fine. Something "trashed" the secondary downstream router since last night and I had to reboot it. The only thing connected to router was Natty.<br> <br> Thanks for you thoughts here.<br> <br> </div> </div>  <tt>Clint</tt>  </div> </font></font>