"Dan Pelton" <dnp@ams.org> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>

Actually it is probably too late to fix this problem.
unless you really want to repair this, when there is actually no problem.


It *may* have happenned because you made a lot of FAT/NTFS partitions, and
then changed them to be linux ? Actually XP doesnt look at the filesystem
type in the partition table when assigned drive letter,

And the ext2/3, swap filesystem (dont know about reiserfs, but xfs is
excluded) dont use or write over the first few sectors of the partition
(because they reserve this for the boot sector !),
and so the fat/ntfs superblock/signature is left there.

So a way to fix this might be to install grub to the linux partitions,
including / , /boot and swapspace
And then install it back to the MBR (/dev/hda) if thats where it lives
normally. grub will have wiped over the superblock.


I think this should be considered a bug in XP actually.

> I have a dell laptop 5150. I installed Redhat 9 and Windows XP.

> The problem is that in windows the boot drive is E: instead of C:.


ah, well that is not a problem, leave it alone, it wont hurt.