Comment 31 for bug 571893

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i finally got a xp w/ recovery console cd to boot...the STOP problem did have to do with the fact that the XP was so old ..what was going on was the controller for the HD was AHCI, i switched that in BIOS to IDE and success the CD booted (apparently able to see the drive in that mode and thus not crashing)...got to recovery command line...used fixboot/fixmbr and got a normal nt-xp loader where grub was on C (win xp drive)

used ultimatebootcd to mbrwork to switch active partition and did the same thing to the vista recovery... cause it still showed GRUB in GujN -- tried bootrec /fixmbr from vista recovery console but that still shows as nt/xp-loader bootrec /fixboot does not see any active installations which is probably correct because this is only a recovery CD so it won't rewrite the loader for vista which I believe must be different than nt-xp loader since vista uses a registry type table to boot and not the ntldr loader -- still learning and reading on this.

there WAS previously a splash screen before GRUB2 did its damage that said press f5 for recovery
i have no idea how this was implemented....still trying to figure it out

in the meantime i have windows XP booted so thats a relief

will still keep hacking away at the rest. thanks everyone very much!!!

does anybody know if you can start anything in VISTA from windows xp? could I set it up as another windows os (the recovery software) in the boot.ini??? it would be a way to get back to default and accomplish the same thing right?