Comment 1 for bug 158568

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tyrolian (dfyler) wrote :

Update: Well I fixed the above mentioned new system with broken XP and it was much easier than I thought. A simple edit of the boot.ini file was all that was required. I guess I was wrong about XP being in a unworkable partition (yes, I am another noob who fell for bad information). I still consider it a bug, though, that Ubuntu trashed XP without warning.

I found the fix at: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=78509
Ubuntu 7.10 can read and write NTFS files directly so it is easy to edit boot.ini.