Guest Leo.Hou Posted August 19, 2007 Posted August 19, 2007 I used to have one Windos XP partition and it's protected by pointsec. I created a new partition with help of partition magic and installed Ubuntu in it. The usual way of modifying grub to add a (hd0,0) menu item doesn't work. it seems grub overwrote whatever pointsec has in MBR. I want to get back the 1st partition. Could any body help? I did a lot of search over internet and somebody said I can boot with a windows XP disc and use the rescue console to run fixmbr and fixboot. First of all, I don't have a XP disc at the moment. Secondly, I want to make sure I am not making things any worse before I purchase an extra windows XP copy. Can anyone give me any advice for that? Greatly appreciated. (by the way, is there any way for me to get a XP rescue console without buying a XP copy?)
Guest AJR Posted August 19, 2007 Posted August 19, 2007 Re: Pointsec protected partition lost after installed Linux Leo.Hou - cannot directly offer aid, however consider, in the future, using a linix distribution that boots from the CD and does not require installation on the HD - check http://www.konppix.com. If you had accesss to a XP CD you can load the Recovery Console so that it is an optional menu item at boot. You do not state if you can boot into Linux - which would (should) provide accesss to the Windows files. "Leo.Hou" <leo.hou@gmail.com> wrote in message news:1187550469.302023.256930@22g2000hsm.googlegroups.com... >I used to have one Windos XP partition and it's protected by pointsec. > I created a new partition with help of partition magic and installed > Ubuntu in it. The usual way of modifying grub to add a (hd0,0) menu > item doesn't work. it seems grub overwrote whatever pointsec has in > MBR. I want to get back the 1st partition. Could any body help? > > I did a lot of search over internet and somebody said I can boot with > a windows XP disc and use the rescue console to run fixmbr and > fixboot. First of all, I don't have a XP disc at the moment. Secondly, > I want to make sure I am not making things any worse before I purchase > an extra windows XP copy. > > Can anyone give me any advice for that? Greatly appreciated. > > (by the way, is there any way for me to get a XP rescue console > without buying a XP copy?) >
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