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@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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