hi all, i think i need a little help... [Crying or Very sad] after i installed kubuntu 8.04 with kde4 on my pc (which already has a XP install on a different disk) i went on to configure wine with wineconf. i think i made the mistake of pointing the c: drive for wine to the real c: with the xp installation in it. point is, now xp is screwed. it boots, loads until getting a totally black screen with the pointer instead of the desktop... even in recovery mode. browsing in the windows directory i found a recent ntbtlog.txt that has countless "cant load driver XXXX"... any suggestion on how to restore the xp boot? thnx in advance mAn
Manorba wrote:> hi all, i think i need a little help... [Crying or Very sad] > > after i installed kubuntu 8.04 with kde4 on my pc (which already has a XP install on a different disk) i went on to configure wine with wineconf. > i think i made the mistake of pointing the c: drive for wine to the real c: with the xp installation in it. > point is, now xp is screwed. it boots, loads until getting a totally black screen with the pointer instead of the desktop... even in recovery mode. > browsing in the windows directory i found a recent ntbtlog.txt that has countless "cant load driver XXXX"... > > any suggestion on how to restore the xp boot? > > thnx in advance > mAnWell, you've just done what the Wine FAQ specifically says not to do. You should restore your windows system from your latest backup.
> after i installed kubuntu 8.04 with kde4 on my pc (which already has a XP install on a different disk) i went on to configure wine with wineconf. > i think i made the mistake of pointing the c: drive for wine to the real c: with the xp installation in it. > point is, now xp is screwed. it boots, loads until getting a totally black screen with the pointer instead of the desktop... even in recovery mode. > browsing in the windows directory i found a recent ntbtlog.txt that has countless "cant load driver XXXX"... > > any suggestion on how to restore the xp boot? >The best advice I can give you is reinstall windows and never try this again. Your .dlls in the real windows system folder were replaced by fake wine .dlls. You could try to use rsync to grab these dlls from an identical XP system if you have one though. John
John Drescher wrote:> The best advice I can give you is reinstall windows and never try this again. Your .dlls in the real windows system folder were replaced by > fake wine .dlls. You could try to use rsync to grab these dlls from an > identical XP system if you have one though. > > Johnyeah i reckon that was a pretty stupid move [Rolling Eyes] i'll have to reinstall xp on it's disk then... luckily i use it only for gaming so i lost nothing important... all in all i guess documentation is there for a reason [Wink] really thnx for the quick reply