reinstalling grub

[Gregg Fowler]

On Tue, 2006-02-07 at 03:54 -0500, Ninad Bapat wrote:

> Hi
> 
> I have 2 hard drives installed and I have WinXP, Slackware,FC3 on hda1
> and Ubuntu,Kanotix on hdb
> Recently Windows XP started giving some errors. For e.g whenever an
> application(Excel,firefox etc) was opened I got a popup message
> "Windows-Corrupt file C/WINDOWS/prefetch/xxxx.pf is corrupt and
> unreadable please run chkdsk"
> The application then would continue to run without any problems.
> Especially firefox always gave errors and all the files in
> profiles/mozilla went corrupt. I could not access my bookmarks and
> history.
> When I attempted to do chkdsk It complained that the File System is
> RAW and chkdsk does not support such filesystem.
> I tried to repair this XP installation by booting from the XP CD. Here
> also setup complained that C: is corrupt and cannot be repaired.
> So I tried to install XP again. Here when I select the option to
> install setup automatically selects my D drive (extended partition)
> and when I change it to C and select delete and proceed to install new
> it does not ask for any formatting option and gives the same error
> above.
> Now after all this exercise my Grub menu has been wiped off and now
> when I start my computer I get 2 options
> 1. Win XP professional
> 2. Win XP professional Setup.
> 
> When I boot into Windows my display has become 640x480 and this cannot
> be changed.
> 
> How do I restore Grub to atleast boot into Linux. Grub was installed
> when Ubuntu was installed
> 
> Thanks
> Ninad
> 

Hope you get an answer, because I am going to install XP on a FAT
partition I created when installing Ubuntu on my laptop. I was thinking
maybe one can skip to the Grub install in the installation menu, but I
am not sure if this would be the proper or easiest way. There is a lot
of information available, I just haven't gotten around to doing anything
yet. I would leave XP off except that I am thinking of getting some
Computer Tech Schooling and I am sure Windows would have to be used.
Good luck.

Gregg


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