{Disarmed} Re: Error # 13 When booting to XP in Grub

[James Mcphee]

http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/ubuntu-help/60947-convincing-grub-dual-boot-winxp-extended-partition-2.html

Sorry, here's the link :)

On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 8:03 PM, James Mcphee <jmcphe at gmail.com> wrote:

> Not an answer, but here's a forum thread of someone having the same issue
> and some discussion around it.
>
>
> On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 5:37 PM, Craig White <craigwhite at azapple.com>wrote:
>
>> On Sat, 2009-05-30 at 19:12 -0500, Mike Hoy wrote:
>> >         this is just a visual representation of the same hard drive we
>> >         were
>> >         talking about the other day and wondering why you couldn't get
>> >         it to
>> >         boot Windows via grub.
>> >
>> >         Yes, it seems like an illogical setup and it there may be no
>> >         good day to
>> >         fix it other than backing stuff up and starting over.
>> >
>> >         Craig
>> > I suppose I could reinstall xp. That would overwrite the MBR. Then I
>> > would have to reinstall the grub boot loader. I've read somewhere that
>> > I can do that from the Ubuntu live cd. Well, thanks guys. Guess I'll
>> > give up and reinstall at some later date when it's imperative that I
>> > get windoze up and running again.
>> ----
>> you don't need to reinstall windows to over-write the MBR, you can do
>> that from the 'repair console' on Windows XP. The MBR isn't your problem
>> though. You can rewrite and use WIndows Boot Loader if you want instead
>> of grub. It may very well be that if you run the 'repair console' and
>> execute 'FIXBOOT' that may fix the Windows startup problem.
>>
>> I think your issues aren't with grub either.
>>
>> I would suspect that somewhere with gparted or with the Ubuntu installer
>> which probably uses parted on the back end, somewhere the notion of
>> moving your WIndows into a larger 'extended' partition was the right
>> thing to do but apparently, it did not do a good job of it.
>>
>> Craig
>>
>>
>>
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