dual boot problems-bootmagic

[hanfamily at earthlink.net]

On Tue, 3 May 2005, Mauriat wrote:

> > I bought a new compaq computer with win xp partitioned the
> > drive installed fedora with grub to load. I had everything
> > working then I booted windows it goes into pc recovery and
> > overwrites the boot section so it only will boot windows.
> > Is there a way to get this to work?  If not is there a
> > way to make a boot cd to access the linux partition.
> 
> Just an idea:
> Try re-installing grub to your boot partition or root partition
> (wherever you boot) and then use the NT boot loader in XP to load
> linux. This way you are not re-writing the MBR.
> http://www.winimage.com/bootpart.htm 
> http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Linux+NT-Loader.html
> 
> Mauriat
> 
> 
I  checked these out but they seem to all require a floppy drive
which is missing on my computer. Partition Magic also has boot magic
has anyone had any luck using it to dual boot xp and fedora?
                         Linda