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November 11, 2008 at 02:11 AM
carlox86

XP restarts during boot

by carlox86 . Updated 17 years, 8 months ago

I installed ubuntu 8.10 -upgraded from 7.10- not long ago, as I already had installed XP sp2, which had never gave me any trouble before.

Today I decide I want to log into windows, but instead I come across a boot menu that give some options: boot into safe mode, boot with network functions, last known working configuration.

No matter what I select (even with the ‘advanced options’ that come with F8), every time my PC will reboot while booting the system. I’ve already ran XP installation repair from the installer CD, and the commands:

chkdsk /f
bootcfg /scan
bootcfg /rebuild
fixboot
fixmbr

none of them can help. I downloaded ERD commander and gave it a try, to no avail. I still can access all my data from Ubuntu, but I really have to have dual boot. Of course I’m not willing to format my windows partition. Is there anything else I can do?

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