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Old 05-07-2004, 10:49 AM   #16
unrealhippie
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A. If you installed Suse into the same partition that previously held the XP C: drive, meaning /dev/sda1, then anything in C: has been overwritten. Since C: is the default location for XP, I suspect you may have wiped out your XP system files (unless you explicitly installed XP to the D: or G: drive)
I made sure XP was D: (because programs automatically go to C: most stuff I wipe off in about a month or two, this means that my windows config was kept bug free..)

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B. If that is true, you won't be able to set up a dual boot, because XP is no longer on that machine.
It isn't so I hope I can..

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C. That may be bad news, but the good news is that any data on D: and G: will still be accessible. What you'll need to do is to create a new "mountpoint" and then manually mount that partition to it. To illustrate:
also thanks for help I could mount my D:/ and get at all my data.. cheers..

now for the dual boot..
 
  


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