Matt, I overlooked the fact that you might be booting the Windows sdb drive on start up since it also has Grub installed to its MBR. If you are booting that drive on start up, the following Grub...
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Matt, I overlooked the fact that you might be booting the Windows sdb drive on start up since it also has Grub installed to its MBR. If you are booting that drive on start up, the following Grub...
I think it would help to first get a clearer picture of your setup related to your booting problem, so how about downloading the Boot Info Script to your Ubuntu desktop:
...
You're welcome, I'm glad that worked OK. Cheers and have fun with Ubuntu. :)
John
I would try putting the drive in the Primary Slave position and see what difference that makes about booting Windows from Grub. Also, what is your current Grub entry for Windows? Is it the same as...
According to fdisk, you do have a ~25 GiB chunk of unused disk space after sda3. Based on what you've said so far, I think there's a good chance you could use "testdisk" to recover your lost ext4...
How about doing the following from your 9.04 Live CD:
sudo grub
grub> root (hd0,5)
grub> setup (hd0,5)
grub> quit
Then use the following entry for 9.04 in your Gos menu.lst:
title Ubuntu...
I think it would help to first get a clearer picture of your setup related to your Windows booting problem, so how about downloading the Boot Info Script to your Ubuntu desktop:
...
So I'm just wondering, but how do you know for sure your first partition has bad sectors just because Windows blue-screens when you copy programs over to that partition? If that's all that is...
How about posting the following commands so we can get a better idea how Ubuntu sees your partitions:
sudo fdisk -lu
sudo sfdisk -d
John
FattyCNS, since we don't know how your drives are arranged in your BIOS boot order, we can't know for sure which Windows Grub entry is correct for your setup; therefore, the easiest course of action...
About undoing what we accomplished with booting Win 7 and Win XP, reinstalling Jaunty will not do that; if the Jaunty installer misses adding either XP or Win7 to your Grub menu, just add the...
I asume it wants me to respond with y or n however I do not know
how to send y or n to it.[/QUOTE]
All drives with a GPT keep a standard MS-DOS partition table in the HDD MBR (Master Boot Record)...
I think it would help to first get a clearer picture of your setup related to your booting problem, so how about downloading the Boot Info Script to your Ubuntu Live CD desktop:
...
It looks like part of the problem is that when you installed Ubuntu 8.10, you set it to use the same boot partition (sda3) as your installed Ubuntu 9.04; unfortunately 8.10 erased all your 9.04 boot...
OK, so you are trying to boot the Windows that is on the drive that does not have Ubuntu on it, correct? If that's true, how about trying the following entry in your menu.lst:
title Windows...
Glad to hear those Grub commands are all it took to get your SATA drive booting properly; cheers and have fun with your new Ubuntu install. :)
John
Glad to hear testdisk fixed your overlapping partition problem. :) Hopefully whatever caused the problem in the first place won't happen to you again.
Cheers,
John
It sounds like that might be about your only option at this point; I'm doubtful MSI's tech support will be able to help you, but it's certainly worth a try. I just did a quick Google search on your...
OK, how about doing the following commands:
sudo grub
grub> root (hd1,0)
grub> setup (hd1)
grub> quit
And please post the output before typing "quit". Then remove your IDE drive and try...
I think it would help to first get a clearer picture of your setup related to your booting problem, so how about booting your Jaunty Live CD, download the Boot Info Script to the desktop:
...
Hi Rob, any time fdisk reports "omitting empty partition (X)", that unfortunately means your HDD's partition table is corrupt; if you look at the start/stop cylinders for sda2 extended partition and...
That's great news Windows 7 and Windows XP are now booting separately from Grub. :) About getting your Jaunty install booting, how about first booting your Jaunty Live CD, and then re-run the Boot...
That's great you can boot Win XP now--I think we can get your Win 7 booting too with just a little more work, so I would not suggest reinstalling. If you don't have time to do the following before...
According to the results of the xxd command you ran, it looks like the "bootrec /fixboot" did not succeed, because your Windows 7 boot sector is still an XP type boot sector. Did you try booting...
OK, let's instead do this the linux way. How about downloading the attached "XP_PBR_9sectors.txt" file to your Ubuntu desktop, and then do:
sudo dd if=~/Desktop/XP_PBR_9sectors.txt of=/dev/sda2...