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Old 11th Feb 2008, 03:36 AM
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I installed Ubuntu on a 50GB partition alongside my XP partition. When I rebooted I found it odd that XP wasn't in the GRUB boot menu. Now, when I try to reinstall XP (FIXBOOT and FIXMBR didn't work) it reports it's not a suitable partition. I booted into BARTPE and I still have all my data...so what should I do?
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Default Hard Drive Inaccessible

Originally Posted by mykul View Post
I installed Ubuntu on a 50GB partition alongside my XP partition. When I rebooted I found it odd that XP wasn't in the GRUB boot menu. Now, when I try to reinstall XP (FIXBOOT and FIXMBR didn't work) it reports it's not a suitable partition. I booted into BARTPE and I still have all my data...so what should I do?
First step, fix the GRUB menu again by running a live distro.

After that, it is easy to add a windows boot entry to the Grub menu. It will generally look like this, uncommented, in menu.lst:

title Windows 95/98/NT/2000
root (hd0,0)
makeactive
chainloader +1
menu.lst is a text file so you can edit it as root using kate.

sudo kate

you will find it in the /boot tree.

Finally, when you have a usable system again, follow the instructions at

http://users.bigpond.net.au/hermanzone/p9.html

to make sure you can access Windows from Grub and Grub from Windows!
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