Shoutbox

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Originally posted by Matty

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Originally posted by blade

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Originally posted by Matty
For people in the future if you boot off of your Windows XP installation CD you will have an option for R for Repair. If you press R you will be taken to DOS (so to speak.)

It asks what Windows Installation you want to log into. Press the button Corresponding to C:\Windows

type your admin password

then at the prompt you should be able to type fixboot and it should repair the boot.ini for all windows installs.

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I did that several times. I did fixboot and fixmbr.

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If that didn't work then in safe mode start > run > msconfig > boot.ini tab > check all boot paths.

it will return a good or bad and it should fix the bad.

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but you see, that's what happened. I did that in the first place and it deleted XP, leaving only Longhorn

And I couldn't even get into safe mode for XP, I could only get to Longhorn.