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Solve : massive dual boot prob?

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im trying to run mandrake 9.1(using now) and winxp pro(inaccessible). the y are both installed on the same drive(80 gig), 60 gig windoze, and the rest linux

bootloader is lilo, obviously mandrake loads with no probs, but when i select WINDOWS it says "ntldr is missing..." so i got that FILE, but while in linux i cant copy the file from cdrom to the windows C:\ drive, which is /dev/hda1 under linux.
not to mention it wont let me create a NEW directory or anything else for that matter.

i looked at the line in /etc/fstab :

/dev/hda1 /mnt/win_c ntfs iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0 0 0

it was originaly mounted readonly but i removed that, didnt do anything, tried to change permissions and it wouldnt let me, so im a bit stuck as NO1 else uses linux in the house and the want their xp back...losers

anyways im just a n00b myself, only experience i got is several FRUSTRATING installations and messing up a lot of configuration stuff...nice

any help would be greatly appreciated.



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