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Re: Cannot boot xp



Op vr, 18-02-2005 te 13:34 +0100, schreef Thierry Chatelet:
> About a week ago I installed a i386 testing machine, and enjoyed it. But 
> today I tried to boot xp and I got the following message from grub:
> Filesystem type unknown,  partition type 0x7.
> and it would not boot xp.
> I tried to go like the following:
> cfdisk and then change type to ntfs either 86 or 87.
> I then got the same message with the partition type updated to either 86 
> or 87.
> I have not lost anything yet, I can brows the windowws partition.
> Can I fix that without re-installing xp?
> If not, can I re-install xp without losing debian? (I think I read 
> somewhere it is possible from within grub??)
> Thierry
> 
Hi, 

I had the same problem on one of my machines lately, and I found some
help on how to solve this in the knowledge base of SuSE Linux:

http://support.novell.com/cgi-bin/search/searchtid.cgi?/en/2004/05/fhassel_windows_not_booting91.html

I hope this helps you too.

Greetings Arjan 

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