Issues with booting Xp after installing Ubuntu

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TAU12US Just Joined! Join Date: Nov 2009 Posts: 6	Issues with booting Xp after installing Ubuntu I just started using Ubuntu, and I like it but, I wanted to keep windows xp on my system. When I installed Ubuntu, I installed it onto a separate hard drive, I figured I could choose between systems from my boot menu. Now I can't even boot into XP anymore Is there anyway to check if Xp is still even installed? Any suggestion to fix my XP boot issues?

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D-cat Linux Engineer Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Dover, NH Posts: 1,444	Is the second hard drive external? This would affect the ability of the boot manager to load if the hard drive is not plugged in. If both drives are internal, then I suggest you boot with a Live CD. First would be to open a root terminal window and show us the output of fdisk -l (that's FDISK -L in lower case). That'll at least show us if the partition table is still in tact. __________________ You just WON the game!

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Originally Posted by TAU12US

I just started using Ubuntu, and I like it but, I wanted to keep windows xp on my system. When I installed Ubuntu, I installed it onto a separate hard drive, I figured I could choose between systems from my boot menu.
Now I can't even boot into XP anymore

Is there anyway to check if Xp is still even installed?
Any suggestion to fix my XP boot issues?

Boot Ubuntu from the hard drive if you can, open a terminal and post the output of

Code:

sudo fisk -l

here. Let us know if you changed the bootloader defaults during the Ubuntu install. Also let us know if either of the drives is an external drive and how they are connected to the system.

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TAU12US Just Joined! Join Date: Nov 2009 Posts: 6	This is what I got, just to let you know I'm somewhat computer literate just not familar with Ubuntu but plan on learning about it. Both drives are internal Have not intentionally messed with any boot settings Disk /dev/sda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Disk identifier: 0xcab10bee Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 1 18527 148818096 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/sda2 18529 19457 7462192+ c W95 FAT32 (LBA) Disk /dev/sdb: 40.0 GB, 40020664320 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4865 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Disk identifier: 0x002e002e Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdb1 1 4660 37431418+ 83 Linux /dev/sdb2 4661 4865 1646662+ 5 Extended /dev/sdb5 4661 4865 1646631 82 Linux swap / Solaris

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devils casper Super Moderator Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Chandigarh, India Posts: 21,081	Windows XP is perfectly fine. First of all, try to re-install GRUB. In case that doesn't work, you have to switch Hard disks ( cable/jumper settings to set Ubuntu Hard disk as Primary ) and re-install grub. Boot up from Ubuntu LiveCD, open Terminal and execute this Code: sudo grub You will get a grub prompt, grub> Execute this: Code: find /boot/grub/stage1 If you get "Error 15: File not found", try the following: Code: find /grub/stage1 Using this information, set the root device (fill in X,Y with whatever the find command returned): Code: root (hdX,Y) setup (hd0) quit Reboot machine. __________________ It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing. - Gertrude Stein New Users: Read This First

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TAU12US Just Joined! Join Date: Nov 2009 Posts: 6	I'll give it a shot

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TAU12US Just Joined! Join Date: Nov 2009 Posts: 6	hang on one tick I think I know where I made my mistake...

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TAU12US Just Joined! Join Date: Nov 2009 Posts: 6	okay so I was able to get to this far [ Minimal BASH-like line editing is supported. For the first word, TAB lists possible command completions. Anywhere else TAB lists the possible completions of a device/filename. ] grub> find /boot/grub/stage1 Error 15: File not found grub> find /grub/stage1 Error 15: File not found it is giving me error 15 either way

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devils casper Super Moderator Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Chandigarh, India Posts: 21,081	Something is wrong with installation and its a GRUB/BIOS compatibility problem. Which version of Ubuntu are you using? __________________ It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing. - Gertrude Stein New Users: Read This First

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TAU12US Just Joined! Join Date: Nov 2009 Posts: 6	Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala

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