How to reinstall windows xp without harming centos preinstalled?

Question

I have installed windows xp and centos on my computer . windows xp is corrupt and is unrepairable and I am planning to reinstall it but I dont know how to do it without damaging centos. Last time when I did it, centos was gone. Please give me the complete instructions to reinstall xp without damaging centos

Answer 1

You Must try to REPAIR it. It doesn't delete program files, only replaces windows file.

OR

install it in any other drive/partition and then copy paste from that earlier windows partition and then format that unused window.

Well, hope it works and anyone please tell me WHATS centos?? :P

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Answer 2

Install XP to the drive it currently resides on.



When finished this will basically hose the mbr of your root partition to recognize Windows XP only but have no fear.



Download and run the super grub disk to reinstall Grub and have it point to XP and Centos.

Answer 3

so a techniques as i be attentive to XP does not desire to be final in line. The NTFS record device must be on the initiating of thepersistent. maximum anybody i be attentive to who has a twin boot had to place in XP first, then use partition magic, then put in Linux. Do you quite ought to deploy XP? if so, you will the two ought to returned up your Linux device and then reformat each and every thing and deploy XP then Linux, or you will ought to install XP to a distinctive device. in case you have yet another perplexingpersistent laying around you ought to exchange them out and today deploy XP and then the two may be satisfied. when you're finished with XP, placed your Linuxpersistent returned in.