GRUB problem

[Rohan Kulkarni]

Hello everyone,
              Thanks for the help.I used an Ubuntu Live CD to delete linux
partitions and reinstalled WindowsXP.It is working fine now.

On 8/12/07, Garry T. Williams <gtwilliams at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Sunday 12 August 2007 09:58:43 Rohan Kulkarni wrote:
> > Hello,
> >          I installed Fedora 7 on my system with Windows XP already
> > installed.Now am not able to boot my Windows XP installer CD.It stops at
> the
> > point Checking Hardware Configuration.Is it a problem with GRUB?Thanks.
>
> It sounds like your Windows XP installer CD doesn't like the master
> boot record (MBR) that grub installed.  I thought that was an old
> problem.  Anyway, you might want to try using the Windows boot
> manager.  The steps involve restoring the Windows MBR, installing the
> Linux MBR on the first sector of your /boot partion, copying the Linux
> MBR into the Windows file system, and then editing the C:\boot.ini
> file to add your F7 system.
>
> See http://www.geocities.com/epark/linux/grub-w2k-HOWTO.html for one
> method.  You might have to Google a bit to find the command to restore
> the Windows MBR.
>
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