I was beginning to have my suspicions that something was going on with your Windows drive, so from what you say, it sounds like that was unfortunately true. Anyway, cheers and good luck with it. :)
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I was beginning to have my suspicions that something was going on with your Windows drive, so from what you say, it sounds like that was unfortunately true. Anyway, cheers and good luck with it. :)
OK, so Windows is indeed on (hd1), so your Grub menu entry for Windows should be OK. While the Ubuntu drive is still connected, how about going into your BIOS and change the boot order so that you...
OK, I didn't realize you could boot XP just fine with the Ubuntu HDD unplugged. You are certainly not being dull, I just need to get a better handle on your situation I think. :) How about rebooting,...
Do you have your Windows XP Install CD? If so, please boot that, go to the "recovery console" and run:
fixboot
chkdsk /r
And run the chkdsk as many times as it takes until it reports no errors....
OK, I suspect the problem is with your XP partition's boot sector. How about first making sure the Ubuntu Universe repository is enabled in System > Admin > Software Sources, and then download and...
Amheuwr, you mentioned you have a USB MyBook HDD? Is that the drive that Windows is on? If so, that could be the issue, because from what I've read, it takes quite a bit of hacking to get Windows to...
Well, when you install Windows to a slave drive (and it looks like sdb could be configured that way), Windows insists on putting its boot files on the master drive in some primary NTFS/FAT partition;...
OK, that makes sense then. While you have sda4 and sdb1 mounted from the directions in post #24, next do:
gksudo gedit /mnt/sda4/boot.ini
And replace it with:
[boot loader]
timeout=30...
How did you install Windows? Right now it looks like you have Vista installed on sda4 and XP installed on sdb1, and also XP's boot files are in Vista's sda4 partition. Are you just trying to get XP...
So is Windows on sda4 or sdb1? Please post the output of the following:
sudo mkdir /mnt/sda4 /mnt/sdb1
sudo mount /dev/sda4 /mnt/sda4
sudo mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/sdb1
ls -l /mnt/sda4 /mnt/sdb1...
Since you reinstalled, how about posting the new output of:
sudo fdisk -lu
Also, for each of the drives fdisk lists, like sda, sdb, etc, please post the output of:
sudo xxd -l 2 -p /dev/sda...
How about posting the output of the following:
sudo mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt
ls -l /mnt
cat /mnt/boot.ini
If that first command does not work, then instead try:
sudo mount -t ntfs-3g -o force...
So you get the Grub menu OK on start up, but when you try and boot XP from the menu you get a Grub error 18? Are you booting the Ubuntu drive on start up? How about posting:
sudo xxd -l 2 -p...
I see at least part of your problem; when you boot Windows from any drive other than the drive that is first in the BIOS boot order, you have to use Grub's "mapping" technique to fool Windows into...