Please help - moving grub/MBR

[Bluemouse]

Hi all,

So, I had a dual boot going with XP and ubuntu, where XP was on one disk, and I installed Ubuntu overtop on a separate disk. Unfortunately, my XP disk has crashed, and now I cannot boot into anything (typing from a live cd).

I'm a bit shaky with the booting stuff, but from what I understand, my MBR would be on the original XP disk? How would I move it over to a different disk so I can boot?

Thanks!

 

[Tmagic650]

I guess nobody here uses ubuntu around here Boot off the XP disc, follow like you were installing XP fresh until you see the repair option and try performing an MBR repair from there

 

[hellokitty[hk]]

Yes, press r when asked, select your windows partition, and type "fdisk /MBR", "FIXMBR", or "FIXBOOT". Those should all work, though I think FIXBOOT sets the primary drive and the other two reinstall the windows bootloader.
You can do this from a live ubuntu with the ms-sys package.