mangup Posted May 14, 2009 Share Posted May 14, 2009 Dear sirs Could anyone please help me please, as i am in big problem. My problem is like this. Though this may not be the appropriate place to put this prob, sorry for this. I have installed windows XP in my c drive. I found a Fedora 10 live CD and installed that in the same PC. The installation was complete without any problem. But after installation of fedora, I can't boot XP. I can see the two options at the boot time i.e. One for fedora which works fine and other for Xp i.e. Others. But if i try to boot to others i.e. XP, it hangs on and a black screen appears for hours but nothing happens. But I can see the XP's other partitions from fedora if i do. # fdisk -l # df -h I think the MBR has been overwritten for XP. So how can I get back to my previous XP without loosing any data and also the fedora at the same time. why this happened ? Is it possible to install any Linux distros in windows file format? I think its not possible. But how this happened because I only format the last partition but did not delete that and still fedora got installed. How this happened? The answer for these questions will be of great importance for me sir. thanks in advance. with warm regards Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trq Posted May 14, 2009 Share Posted May 14, 2009 You'll want to login to fedora an reinstall / install grub. From there you need to configure which OS's to boot within /boot/grub/menu.list Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mangup Posted May 15, 2009 Author Share Posted May 15, 2009 Fedora works fine but the problem is with Xp which don't get boot. It hangs up with a black screen for hours but not boot up. So how to accomplish this i.e how to boot xp?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trq Posted May 15, 2009 Share Posted May 15, 2009 I read your question, you ought read my reply. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
backyard Posted May 18, 2009 Share Posted May 18, 2009 Did you get a choice on boot? Windows and Fedora. I suspect you need to reinstall grub and try again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mangup Posted May 20, 2009 Author Share Posted May 20, 2009 thanks for the help sir. I finally get trapped into more complex problem like grub and so on . So I formatted and reinstalled the Xp and fedora from non-live Cd and it is working. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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