I bought this computer with Windows XP installed. I removed the hard
drive it came with and installed the hard drives from the computer
it replaced. That went well except that the Win-XP on the "old"
disks knew it had moved and refuses to boot. So this morning I
thought I'll install the original drive as a third drive and change
grub.conf to fit.
That done Win XP will not boot, produces an error message:
Error 12: Invalid or unsupported executable format.
I can mount the drive in F-14 and list the directory.
I took my best guess at the grub designation for the drive:
title Windows-XP-Pro
rootnoverify (hd1,0)
chainloader +1
It had been:
title Other
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
chainloader +1
Fdisk shows the drive details as:
[root@box9 bobg]# fdisk /dev/sdc
Command (m for help): p
Disk /dev/sdc: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders, total 156301488
sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xc1c1c1c1
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdc1 * 63 156280319 78140128+ 7
HPFS/NTFS
Command (m for help):
What am I doing wrong or is Windows refusing to boot because the
drive is not where it wants it?
Any thoughts/help appreciated.
Bob
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