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[ManDriver]

After unsuccessful installation of iDeneb 1.3 on Asus Eee pc 1000HE, how can I boot back to Windows XP? If I try to F9 (recovery from hidden partition), I get "NTLDR is Missing". Any ideas guys ?!?

[LonelyTV]

You've got to fix the MBR on the drive. Since you're on a EEE PC this will be harder since the main way to fix it is to use the XP Install CD to repair it. If you can, see if you can find fixmbr.exe (google it) with that you should be able to fix it. Now, to run it I'd suggest making a DOS bootable USB drive and move fixmbr.exe to it. That SHOULD fix your problem.

[ManDriver]

Hm...so it's actually corrupted master boot record. I thought it's just the matter of setting of active partition. The problem is, that restore CD contain only image file of Win XP, so i have to obtain the install version. Is there any way to solve this with the Gparted Thnx, ManDriver.

[scn]

If I recall correctly, back in the day fdisk /mbr was the fdisk command that did it. If fixmbr doesn't work for you, find a boot disk with fdisk on it and then zap away.

You might also consider downloading Windows 7. I'm pretty sure its installer will fix what needs fixing (and I find the OS to be superior to XP).

[ManDriver]

Hm.. but I have tried to install OS X on the other partition than it's Win XP.
Is it okay to fix MBR of Win Xp with WIN 7 boot/install disk?

[scn]

I'm not sure that Windows 7 has the same basic (fdisk, format) etc. commands or that they work the same way in its recovery mode. However, you could install Windows 7 (which I suggest) and it'll erase your XP partition and create two new ones: one a "system reserved" which has all of the boot and etc. info on it as far as I can tell, and the other the actual Windows partition.

If you go that route, once you've installed everything, boot back into the recovery mode and set the OS X partition as the active partition so that the system will boot to that. After you've done that, install Chameleon 2 to get yourself a nice, graphical bootloader that'll let you choose which OS you want to use.