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Re: Grub issues booting Win xp



Hi!

> That's where your Windows boot files went....you deleted the partition
> they were on. It can't boot from just the NTFS logical partition - it
> needs a primary to start from with the boot files on it, and boot.ini
> has to point to the NTFS partition with it's partition(x) value.
Thanks a lot, really happy to finally find somebody knowing this..
Ahhh, and thats the reason that "fdisk /mbr" moved the first partition (ext3) 
from (hd0,0) to (hd0,1). So I will try to shrink the swap partition and make 
a part of it the primary partition with fat.

Have fun,
      Kevin



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