Booting Windows when early boot fails
So this was my problem; an old laptop wouldn't boot Windows XP. After the Grub menu, I would just get a black screen with a blinking cursor when choosing Windows XP. Other installed OSes worked fine.
Ntldr, Ntdetect and boot.ini were all fine. Reinstalling the MBR (running fixmbr or fdisk /mbr, deleting Grub) or running Windows repair would not fix it. Also the boot flag was set.
Turns out the partition itself, not just the disk, has a boot sector, this was probably corrupt. I got it to boot by using Grub, and replacing the line "chainloader +1" with "ntldr /ntldr" in the menu entry. This skips the boot sector on the partition and loads ntldr directly. Wehey, it booted!
Ntldr, Ntdetect and boot.ini were all fine. Reinstalling the MBR (running fixmbr or fdisk /mbr, deleting Grub) or running Windows repair would not fix it. Also the boot flag was set.
Turns out the partition itself, not just the disk, has a boot sector, this was probably corrupt. I got it to boot by using Grub, and replacing the line "chainloader +1" with "ntldr /ntldr" in the menu entry. This skips the boot sector on the partition and loads ntldr directly. Wehey, it booted!
Labels: blank screen, boot, corrupt boot sector, early boot, grub, mbr, ntldr, windows, windows xp
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