Issues with booting Xp after installing Ubuntu

[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?

[D-cat]

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.

[Jonathan183]

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

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.

[TAU12US]

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

[devils casper]

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

sudo grub

You will get a grub prompt, grub>
Execute this:

find /boot/grub/stage1

If you get "Error 15: File not found", try the following:

find /grub/stage1

Using this information, set the root device (fill in X,Y with whatever the find command returned):

root (hdX,Y)
setup (hd0)
quit

Reboot machine.

[TAU12US]

I'll give it a shot

[TAU12US]

hang on one tick I think I know where I made my mistake...

[TAU12US]

okay so I was able to get to this far

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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

[devils casper]

Something is wrong with installation and its a GRUB/BIOS compatibility problem.
Which version of Ubuntu are you using?

[TAU12US]

Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala