beatz
7 Aug 2008, 2:19pm
Hi there,
maybe someone has seen this before.
On my laptop i installed windows xp along with several linux distributions using grub as boot loader. Now I copied the partitions to a new larger hd. Booting into the linux distris works fine as expected, but windows won't. I already found out that the problem is that the windows install is on a different location on the hd as before. Tried to fix that by editing the bootsector on the windows partition with a hexeditor, but with no luck. Now my last resort before a reinstall is to try an repair install, but the laptop won't boot from the install cd. After it says "press any key to boot ..." it hangs on a black screen.
I googled for people with the same problem, but the only solution seems to wipe the disk and reinstall.
Thanks in advance ...
maybe someone has seen this before.
On my laptop i installed windows xp along with several linux distributions using grub as boot loader. Now I copied the partitions to a new larger hd. Booting into the linux distris works fine as expected, but windows won't. I already found out that the problem is that the windows install is on a different location on the hd as before. Tried to fix that by editing the bootsector on the windows partition with a hexeditor, but with no luck. Now my last resort before a reinstall is to try an repair install, but the laptop won't boot from the install cd. After it says "press any key to boot ..." it hangs on a black screen.
I googled for people with the same problem, but the only solution seems to wipe the disk and reinstall.
Thanks in advance ...