help me, people of the internets, you are my only hope
Written by gregor on April 18th, 2008 in techno-babble.
i come to you in a time of trouble, for i was fuckin around and wanted to see if xp ran any better on my pc. now, i partioned part of my harddrive to install said os and figured i was all good. that would be a miscalculation on my part. now, when i boot up only xp is running and not vista. i even went as far as to delete the partion and when i reboot it gives me the cant find your boot partition, dumbass, error. i have tried everything i know how to do to remedy the situation, but have fallen short thus far. playing the odds, i know there has to be a windows expert around here. i will be momentarily grateful for any assistance.
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Not sure if anything can be done now that you’ve deleted the partition, but you need to edit the boot.ini file and add a selection for the extra partition. You’ll then be able to select which partition you want to boot to when the os is coming up.
all i know is that windows xp is being discontinued:
http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/04/13/HNvistaship_1.html
thanks, poindexter and yes andrew i understand its being discontinued but that didnt stop me. as it turns out, i just so happened to have a copy of the linux distro, mandriva, and installed that after repartioning the drive. oddly enough that fixed whatever it is i broke. who knew?