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