Hey all, I have a dual boot, Windows 2000/Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron) system. I have GRUB setup to boot the windows partition from a secondary drive. Ubuntu boots from the primary drive.

Recently it appears that some system files on the Windows side have become corrupted (it gives me an ntoskrn.exe kernel panic error when I try to boot to Windows).

When I try to use the Windows 2000 CD to do a system file repair, it only looks at the first drive and threatens to wipe out my data (which would be Ubuntu).

I could open up the box and swap the drives around, but the machine is not easily physically accessible at this point, so that would be a real pain.

The only thing I can think of at this point is to somehow repair the system files from within Ubuntu using the Win2k CD, but I am unsure how to go about doing this.

Does anyone know what the appropriate tools would be for me to use from within Linux to do the same thing (essentially a file replace) as a Windows 2000 system files repair? I know the files are encoded somehow (as the last letter is an underscore), is there a tool in Linux that I can use to unencode them and copy them over to the Windows partition?

Thanks!

I think mscompress can handle this.