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 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 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 >> >> >> >> >> -- >> This message has been scanned for viruses and >> dangerous content by MailScanner, and is >> believed to be clean. >> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> > > > > -- > James McPhee > jmcphe@gmail.com > -- James McPhee jmcphe@gmail.com