Installed LinuxMint and now can't see XP/nor boot XP

[Shadowking]

Hi all,

I installed Linux Mint on my dad's pc. But something must have screwed up. I think I messed up grub.
Now I can't access the windows XP files. Plus I can't even see those files in Linux. This is the fdisk-l.


Disk /dev/sda: 81.9 GB, 81964302336 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9964 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xb1ddb1dd

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 3187 25599546 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2 3188 9963 54428220 f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sda5 3188 5737 20482843+ b W95 FAT32
/dev/sda6 5738 8287 20482843+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda7 8288 9963 13462438+ 7 HPFS/NTFS

Disk /dev/sdb: 250.0 GB, 250059350016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xdcb0dcb0

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 * 1 5977 48010221 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sdb2 5978 30401 196185780 f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sdb5 5978 11076 40957686 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sdb6 11077 17991 55544706 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sdb7 17992 30030 96703236 83 Linux
/dev/sdb8 30031 30401 2980026 82 Linux swap / Solaris

This is the menu.lst file for grub. (I've included only the essential part)

title Linux Mint 7 Gloria, kernel 2.6.28-11-generic
root (hd0,6)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.28-11-generic root=/dev/sdb7 ro quiet splash
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.28-11-generic
quiet

title Linux Mint 7 Gloria, kernel 2.6.28-11-generic (recovery mode)
root (hd0,6)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.28-11-generic root=/dev/sdb7 ro single
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.28-11-generic

title Linux Mint 7 Gloria, memtest86+
root (hd0,6)
kernel /boot/memtest86+.bin
quiet

### END DEBIAN AUTOMAGIC KERNELS LIST

# This is a divider, added to separate the menu items below from the Debian
# ones.
title Other operating systems:
root

# This entry automatically added by the Debian installer for a non-linux OS
# on /dev/sda1
title Microsoft Windows XP Professional
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
savedefault
makeactive
grub> map (hd0) (hd1)
grub> map (hd1) (hd0)
chainloader +1

# This entry automatically added by the Debian installer for a non-linux OS
# on /dev/sdb1
title Microsoft Windows XP Professional
rootnoverify (hd1,0)
savedefault
makeactive
map (hd0) (hd1)
map (hd1) (hd0)
chainloader +1

Really need to recover those files and get xp back online for my dad. Any help is appreciated.

Thanks

[Mark Phelps]

Presuming you're booting from the disk containing Mint, your setup files look OK.

Are you sure the XP files are gone? The partitions appear to be still there.

Have you gone into Places and tried opening any of the folders there to confirm that they are empty?

[presence1960]

Let's get a better look at your setup & boot process. Boot into Ubuntu (Mint). Come back here and use the link in my signature to download the Boot Info Script 0.32 to the desktop. Once on desktop open a terminal and run this command
sudo bash ~/Desktop/boot_info_script*.sh This will create a RESULTS.txt file on the desktop. Paste the entire contents of that file back here. Once pasted highlight all text and click the # sign on the toolbar to place code tags around the text