On Thu, 2007-02-01 at 18:57 -0800, Charles R. Buchanan wrote:
On Thu, 01 Feb 2007 21:01:39 -0500, Mike McMullin
took time to say the following: (^_^)> I know it's hard to keep track of everything in this convoluted thread, (^_^)> Mike :-) but at some point I distinctly recall Charles mentioning he was (^_^)> doing a restore or recovery of the XP installation. I'm pretty sure a 'back (^_^)> to factory' recovery would overwrite grub. (^_^) (^_^) Yes it would, someone suggested a nice simple how-to to fix the mbr (^_^)from the rescue console. That would be nice. However I think your (^_^)mining along the vein of writing to the MBR is probably fruitful. So if (^_^)I could ask a question of the OP, did you have grub write to the MBR (^_^)since you restored your XP? The system booting directly into XP would (^_^)seem to indicate that you didn't. (^_^) (^_^) Carl - What do you think of the idea of having the XP bootloader (^_^)handle booting instead of Grub? There are reasonably simple (^_^)instructions for editing the required files in XP as well as how to get (^_^)file(s) he will need to copy over to his XP root partition. (^_^) (^_^) Mike
I am pretty slow, but sometimes I pick things up if I see them used more than once! (referring to "OP" which i am assuming means original poster?) Anyway, yes, I had it checked to write to the MBR and nothing happened. To your original remarks earlier, it is true that XP won't automatically repair or revert the MBR to a before linux state. You have to do that manually or via a install.
As far as I know, it won't, but I'm not an MS Guru. Someone mentioned Norton Anti Virus (and IIRC McAffee) might have auto-repaired the boot sector thinking it might have been changed due to virus activity. I do remember having this "fixed" for me a few times before finding the setting to not "fix" it. Let me clarify one thing, you did the Grub install and then re-booted, and it went into XP without showing the Grub menu, correct?
Carl is correct, it was a strict recovery because the MBR was totally hosed.
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