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Hey, Currently I have a Dell Inspiron 1520 Laptop. I was messing around with partitions as I wanted to install Linux to a separate partition. However before I installed Linux I set my new partition as Active in the Windows XP Disk Manager. However windows XP will not boot any ...


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Old 13th Jan 2009, 13:18
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Default Windows Partition Booting Problems

Hey,

Currently I have a Dell Inspiron 1520 Laptop. I was messing around with partitions as I wanted to install Linux to a separate partition. However before I installed Linux I set my new partition as Active in the Windows XP Disk Manager. However windows XP will not boot any longer and I need to get onto windows.

I tried changing the bootflags with GParted to boot the orginial partitoin but that resulted in an error saying No bootable devices could be found.

I was just wondering if there is a way to get Windows running again without a fresh install of it. I have booted a Live version of Linux at recovered some of my files but not my Music so I want to recover my orginial XP install.

I do have access to all the files through Linux. Any ideas on what I can do?

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Old 13th Jan 2009, 19:50
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Default Windows Partition Booting Problems

try this
http://www.tech-recipes.com/rx/483/x...overy_console/
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