John Nall wrote:
> You were pretty much on target, although the exact sequence that you 
> wrote didn't work for me. But it did give me enough information to fix 
> things, and I am grateful for your advice.

Just to clarify, BTW, the Acronis cloning operation apparently somehow 
got the MBR messed up.  Probably because of the ignored disk errors.  So 
nothing would boot.  I used the Windows XP installation disk, in rescue 
mode, to fix the MBR (using the command FIXMBR) but  then it would only 
boot Windows.  After that, used the FC4 rescue disk with Grub to make it 
capable of booting either Windows or Linux, as it did before all this 
started.   What I did was to repair all the damage I apparently caused.  
:-)  Or, as Pogo so nicely phrased it:  "We have met the enemy, and he 
is us."

John

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