winxp help

[Raymond Russell]

On Dec 10, 2004, at 7:05 AM, Ken Moffat wrote:

> Not a linux question, but surely there is WindowsXP crash experience 
> here.
>
> My wife's WinXP box fails to boot in to winxp using grub. Some 
> partitioning snafu. Can someone tell me what I need to backup before 
> reinstalling in order to restore bookmarks and such? I see a 
> "Documents and settings" folder that might do the trick. Anything else 
> of great importance?
>
> Thanks...
>
> -- 
> Ken

The document and setting folder has all your user data so that should 
take care of your settings, bookmarks, documents and such.
A repair install should put XP back to where it was.  You could also 
boot to the recovery console and fix the MBR so that XP boots.
MS has a page on the console 
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q314058.



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