[ltp] windows won't boot on dual boot T40

[Paul Kaplan]

Can you re-install the Windows boot loader to the MBR (I've seen the routine 
somewhere, but can't recall where), boot XP to verify that the installation 
isn't corrupt and then re-install lilo?  You may need to let XP do a chkdsk 
or try to let the XP installer do a repair.
P

On Sunday 21 December 2003 09:35 pm, Douglas N. Arnold wrote:
> I have installed Debian Woody on a new IBM Thinkpad T40, keeping the
> delivered Windows XP around as an alternative, but I am unable to boot
> windows.
>
> Lilo seems OK and booting into Linux succeeds, but when I try to
> boot into Windows I get
>
>   Bad system disk,
>   Replace the disk and then press any key
>
> I can mount the windows partition under Linux (I have never booted it,
> so it hasn't been converted from FAT32 to NTFS), and it looks fine.
>
> Any suggestions on how to proceed would be greatly appreciated.  I do have
> the recovery CDs from IBM, but as best I can tell if I run the recovery
> program from them it will reformat and repartition my disk and I will
> lose the Linux installation.
>
> Here is some background info:
> I used qtparted to partition the disk leaving Windows in
> hda1 and installing Linux in hda2 and hda4, with swap in hda3.
> fdisk reports:
>
> Disk /dev/hda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
> 240 heads, 63 sectors/track, 10337 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 15120 * 512 = 7741440 bytes
>
>    Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
> /dev/hda1   *           1         948     7166848+   c  W95 FAT32 (LBA)
> /dev/hda2   *         949        1078      982800   83  Linux
> /dev/hda3            1079        1208      982800   82  Linux swap
> /dev/hda4            1209        9921    65870280   83  Linux
>
>
> Thanks in advance for any help. -- Doug Arnold