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Thread: Cannot boot Windows in dual-boot setup

  1. #11
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    Re: Cannot boot Windows in dual-boot setup

    Yes, I've tried that, and no devices show up in the advanced options section. The file browser still doesn't show the NTFS drive.

  2. #12
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    Re: Cannot boot Windows in dual-boot setup

    Also, did some searching found this.

    http://www.sajithmr.com/mount-ntfs-f...ubuntu-debian/

    But before you do, i think you should try a restart. Also check this.

    http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=780202

  3. #13
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    Re: Cannot boot Windows in dual-boot setup

    It appears from your fdisk -l output that your ntfs volume is on a different drive

    I believe what you need to do is to use the map command to get that to work. See the following for reference:
    http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/man...OS_002fWindows

    Try modifying the section in your menu.lst to the following

    title Microsoft Windows XP Professional
    root (hd1,0)
    savedefault
    makeactive
    map (hd0) (hd1)
    map (hd1) (hd0)
    chainloader +1

  4. #14
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    Re: Cannot boot Windows in dual-boot setup

    I tried the hard drive mapping reversal thing, with no luck. It got to stage2 in grub, however, and just hung there. I think it was trying to chainload the windows bootloader, which doesn't exist on that drive anymore because it has been overwritten by GRUB.

    So, I'm back to these two options:

    1. run FIXMBR from the windows xp recovery disk (and possibly make the data unreadable, which it already is)

    2. use a data recovery tool and then run FIXMBR

    It all depends on the actual risk involved with fixmbr. Does anyone know of a really good data recovery tool?

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