Re: Accessing a 3rd HDD under grub

["Chuckk Hubbard" <badmuthahubbard@gmail.com>]

BTW, I have Grub 0.97, WinXP on the first HDD, and Debian Etch with a
real-time kernel on the 2nd HDD.

On 9/1/06, Chuckk Hubbard <badmuthahubbard@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi.
> A friend's computer died, and she'd like to retrieve her files.
> Before setting up my dual-boot system this would have been a piece of
> cake.  Now, though, if I replace the Windows drive, it can't boot, and
> if I replace the Linux drive it reads the MBR but can't reach the GRUB
> options.
> Is there a way to temporarily deactivate GRUB's changes to the MBR, so
> I can boot from my Windows drive and access a different slave HDD?
>
> Thanks.
> Chuckk
>
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