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wee017
May 29th, 2009, 12:07 AM
I installed ubuntu in a dual-boot configuration alongside windows XP. The installation went fine, and after messing around with ubuntu for a while, I tried going back to my windows partition and I get a BSOD after the black windows loading screen.

When I put in the windows recovery CD it says it can't find any hard drives, although gparted recognizes the hard drive and all partitions within it. Here is my fdisk -l output


Disk /dev/sda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x95aa95aa

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 16779 134777286 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2 16780 17883 8867880 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda3 17884 19457 12643155 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 17884 19342 11719386 83 Linux
/dev/sda6 19343 19457 923706 82 Linux swap / Solaris

snowboardb86
May 29th, 2009, 12:13 AM
I had the same issue when I installed Ubuntu 9.04 to dual boot with Vista. When I tried to boot it again it gave me the option to run a start-up repair, and this resolved the issue. That is normal when you change the partition table though.

wee017
May 29th, 2009, 03:40 AM
I wish I had that option, after the blue screen windows automatically reboots. I used VMWare to run a copy of windows so I could run chkdsk and it still doesn't work.

Mark Phelps
May 29th, 2009, 02:50 PM
I'm surprised the windows recovery CD won't work. Is this something you made or did it come with the PC? One possibility is that you have a SATA drive and the recovery CD isn't loading the SATA drivers -- but if it came with the PC and you're still using the original hard drive, that shouldn't be the problem.

Have you tried booting into safe mode?

wee017
May 29th, 2009, 06:23 PM
I tried booting into safe mode and recovery console, both did not work.I do have an HP_RECOVERY partition in my hard drive, although I don't think it's useful in this situation.