I have been having trouble booting Windows XP and was getting error 13 from grub. I have tried the following things in this order on the windows recovery console:
A forced disk check returns ok
To repair the windows parition boot sector, apparently succesful
I no longer get an error 13 but windows XP doesn't boot just a blank screan.
NTDETECT.COM is present
ntldr is present
I have not been able to find any information on this error and there appears to be a very limited amount of tools in the windows recovery console. The tools that are available don't do anything of any use, or don't work.
Has anyone come across this error?
I am running linux as my main OS so am able to mount it and play with it.
Code:
chdsk /p
Code:
fixboot
Code:
bootcfg /rebuild
error: Failed to add ...NTDETECT.COM is present
ntldr is present
Code:
# cat boot.ini
[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect
Code:
# /sbin/fdisk -l
Disk /dev/hda: 164.6 GB, 164696555520 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 20023 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 6534 52484323+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda2 6535 12271 46082452+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda3 12272 20023 62267940 f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hda5 12781 20023 58179366 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda6 12272 12780 4088479+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
Code:
# cat device.map
# this device map was generated by anaconda
(hd1) /dev/hda
(hd0) /dev/hdcHas anyone come across this error?
I am running linux as my main OS so am able to mount it and play with it.
