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Because I&#8217;d like to get the <a href=\"ftp:\/\/ftp.software.ibm.com\/pc\/pccbbs\/access_ibm_en\/hpa_aibm.pdf\">Access IBM predesktop area<\/a> back (and then install Linux so the system will dual-boot with Windows XP), I used the recovery CDs that IBM sent me (free of charge as the system is under warranty).<\/p>\n<p>Initially, recovery failed due to a lack of free space, so I deleted the existing partition (using an MS-DOS boot disk and fdisk) before attempting recovery once more.  This time the files were copied to the hard disk but after rebooting, I was greeted with a GRUB error:<\/p>\n<p><em>GRUB Loading stage1.5&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>GRUB loading, please wait&#8230;<br \/>\nError 22<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gnu.org\/software\/grub\/manual\/html_node\/Stage1_002e5-errors.html\">GRUB error 22 means &#8220;no such partition&#8221;<\/a> &#8211; basically I needed to restore the Windows XP <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/MBR\">master boot record<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>To access this, I booted the system from a Windows XP CD, waited for files to be loaded into memory, then selected <code>R<\/code> for recovery console, selected my Windows XP installation and entered the administrator password.<\/p>\n<p>Once inside the <a href=\"http:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/?kbid=314058\">Windows XP recovery console<\/a>, I tried the <code>fixboot<\/code> command.  This didn&#8217;t seem to make any difference on reboot, so I tried again with <code>fixmbr<\/code>.  After another reboot, Windows XP was up and running (some Internet sites suggest <code>fdisk \/mbr<\/code> but that&#8217;s not a recovery console command under Windows XP).<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately I still haven&#8217;t managed to restore the Access IBM predesktop area (all IBM say is &#8220;it should have been restored by the restore CDs&#8221;) &#8211; if I ever manage to resolve that one, I&#8217;ll post the results here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few weeks back, I blogged about my problems installing Linux on an IBM ThinkPad. 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