Thanks so much for your replies.
I have not done anything to partitions or deleted windows.
Below is result.txt file:
Boot Info Script 0.60 from 17 May 2011
============================= Boot Info Summary: ===============================
=> Grub2 (v1.99) is installed in the MBR of /dev/sda and looks at sector 1 of
the same hard drive for core.img. core.img is at this location and looks
for on this drive.
sda1: __________________________________________________ ________________________
File system: ntfs
Boot sector type: Windows XP
Boot sector info: According to the info in the boot sector, sda1 has
156280256 sectors, but according to the info from
fdisk, it has 78187734 sectors.
Mounting failed: Failed to read last sector (156280256): Invalid argument
HINTS: Either the volume is a RAID/LDM but it wasn't setup yet,
or it was not setup correctly (e.g. by not using mdadm --build ...),
or a wrong device is tried to be mounted,
or the partition table is corrupt (partition is smaller than NTFS),
or the NTFS boot sector is corrupt (NTFS size is not valid).
Failed to mount '/dev/sda1': Invalid argument
The device '/dev/sda1' doesn't seem to have a valid NTFS.
Maybe the wrong device is used? Or the whole disk instead of a
partition (e.g. /dev/sda, not /dev/sda1)? Or the other way around?
Failed to read last sector (156280256): Invalid argument
HINTS: Either the volume is a RAID/LDM but it wasn't setup yet,
or it was not setup correctly (e.g. by not using mdadm --build ...),
or a wrong device is tried to be mounted,
or the partition table is corrupt (partition is smaller than NTFS),
or the NTFS boot sector is corrupt (NTFS size is not valid).
Failed to mount '/dev/sda1': Invalid argument
The device '/dev/sda1' doesn't seem to have a valid NTFS.
Maybe the wrong device is used? Or the whole disk instead of a
partition (e.g. /dev/sda, not /dev/sda1)? Or the other way around?
sda2: __________________________________________________ ________________________
File system: vfat
Boot sector type: Windows XP: FAT32
Boot sector info: No errors found in the Boot Parameter Block.
Operating System:
Boot files: /ntldr /NTDETECT.COM
sda3: __________________________________________________ ________________________
File system:
Boot sector type: Unknown
Boot sector info:
Mounting failed: Failed to read last sector (156280256): Invalid argument
HINTS: Either the volume is a RAID/LDM but it wasn't setup yet,
or it was not setup correctly (e.g. by not using mdadm --build ...),
or a wrong device is tried to be mounted,
or the partition table is corrupt (partition is smaller than NTFS),
or the NTFS boot sector is corrupt (NTFS size is not valid).
Failed to mount '/dev/sda1': Invalid argument
The device '/dev/sda1' doesn't seem to have a valid NTFS.
Maybe the wrong device is used? Or the whole disk instead of a
partition (e.g. /dev/sda, not /dev/sda1)? Or the other way around?
Failed to read last sector (156280256): Invalid argument
HINTS: Either the volume is a RAID/LDM but it wasn't setup yet,
or it was not setup correctly (e.g. by not using mdadm --build ...),
or a wrong device is tried to be mounted,
or the partition table is corrupt (partition is smaller than NTFS),
or the NTFS boot sector is corrupt (NTFS size is not valid).
Failed to mount '/dev/sda1': Invalid argument
The device '/dev/sda1' doesn't seem to have a valid NTFS.
Maybe the wrong device is used? Or the whole disk instead of a
partition (e.g. /dev/sda, not /dev/sda1)? Or the other way around?
mount: unknown filesystem type ''
sda4: __________________________________________________ ________________________
File system: Extended Partition
Boot sector type: -
Boot sector info:
sda5: __________________________________________________ ________________________
File system: ext4
Boot sector type: -
Boot sector info:
Operating System: Ubuntu 11.10
Boot files: /boot/grub/grub.cfg /etc/fstab /boot/grub/core.img
sda6: __________________________________________________ ________________________
File system: swap
Boot sector type: -
Boot sector info:
============================ Drive/Partition Info: =============================
Drive: sda __________________________________________________ ___________________
Disk /dev/sda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders, total 312581808 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Partition Boot Start Sector End Sector # of Sectors Id System
/dev/sda1 * 63 78,187,797 78,187,735 7 NTFS / exFAT / HPFS
/dev/sda2 298,134,270 312,480,314 14,346,045 1c Hidden W95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/sda3 312,480,315 312,576,704 96,390 ef EFI (FAT-12/16/32)
/dev/sda4 78,188,542 298,133,503 219,944,962 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 78,188,544 291,991,551 213,803,008 83 Linux
/dev/sda6 291,993,600 298,133,503 6,139,904 82 Linux swap / Solaris
"blkid" output: __________________________________________________ ______________
Device UUID TYPE LABEL
/dev/sda1 628C8AC18C8A8EEB ntfs
/dev/sda2 CCED-990E vfat PE
/dev/sda5 f4c7bc81-a0a0-4a01-b729-304df000c834 ext4
/dev/sda6 9ef0dd58-a0c5-42a8-8bf3-2b0ef1b8c10b swap
================================ Mount points: =================================
Device Mount_Point Type Options
/dev/sda5 / ext4 (rw,errors=remount-ro,commit=0)
=========================== sda5/boot/grub/grub.cfg: ===========================
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
#
# DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE
#
# It is automatically generated by grub-mkconfig using templates
# from /etc/grub.d and settings from /etc/default/grub
#
### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/00_header ###
if [ -s $prefix/grubenv ]; then
set have_grubenv=true
load_env
fi
set default="0"
if [ "${prev_saved_entry}" ]; then
set saved_entry="${prev_saved_entry}"
save_env saved_entry
set prev_saved_entry=
save_env prev_saved_entry
set boot_once=true
fi
function savedefault {
if [ -z "${boot_once}" ]; then
saved_entry="${chosen}"
save_env saved_entry
fi
}
function recordfail {
set recordfail=1
if [ -n "${have_grubenv}" ]; then if [ -z "${boot_once}" ]; then save_env recordfail; fi; fi
}
function load_video {
insmod vbe
insmod vga
insmod video_bochs
insmod video_cirrus
}
insmod part_msdos
insmod ext2
set root='(hd0,msdos5)'
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root f4c7bc81-a0a0-4a01-b729-304df000c834
if loadfont /usr/share/grub/unicode.pf2 ; then
set gfxmode=auto
load_video
insmod gfxterm
insmod part_msdos
insmod ext2
set root='(hd0,msdos5)'
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root f4c7bc81-a0a0-4a01-b729-304df000c834
set locale_dir=($root)/boot/grub/locale
set lang=en_NZ
insmod gettext
fi
terminal_output gfxterm
if [ "${recordfail}" = 1 ]; then
set timeout=-1
else
set timeout=10
fi
### END /etc/grub.d/00_header ###
### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/05_debian_theme ###
set menu_color_normal=white/black
set menu_color_highlight=black/light-gray
if background_color 44,0,30; then
clear
fi
### END /etc/grub.d/05_debian_theme ###
### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/10_linux ###
if [ ${recordfail} != 1 ]; then
if [ -e ${prefix}/gfxblacklist.txt ]; then
if hwmatch ${prefix}/gfxblacklist.txt 3; then
if [ ${match} = 0 ]; then
set linux_gfx_mode=keep
else
set linux_gfx_mode=text
fi
else
set linux_gfx_mode=text
fi
else
set linux_gfx_mode=keep
fi
else
set linux_gfx_mode=text
fi
export linux_gfx_mode
if [ "$linux_gfx_mode" != "text" ]; then load_video; fi
menuentry 'Ubuntu, with Linux 3.0.0-12-generic' --class ubuntu --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os {
recordfail
set gfxpayload=$linux_gfx_mode
insmod gzio
insmod part_msdos
insmod ext2
set root='(hd0,msdos5)'
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root f4c7bc81-a0a0-4a01-b729-304df000c834
linux /boot/vmlinuz-3.0.0-12-generic root=UUID=f4c7bc81-a0a0-4a01-b729-304df000c834 ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
initrd /boot/initrd.img-3.0.0-12-generic
}
menuentry 'Ubuntu, with Linux 3.0.0-12-generic (recovery mode)' --class ubuntu --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os {
recordfail
insmod gzio
insmod part_msdos
insmod ext2
set root='(hd0,msdos5)'
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root f4c7bc81-a0a0-4a01-b729-304df000c834
echo 'Loading Linux 3.0.0-12-generic ...'
linux /boot/vmlinuz-3.0.0-12-generic root=UUID=f4c7bc81-a0a0-4a01-b729-304df000c834 ro recovery nomodeset
echo 'Loading initial ramdisk ...'
initrd /boot/initrd.img-3.0.0-12-generic
}
submenu "Previous Linux versions" {
menuentry 'Ubuntu, with Linux 2.6.38-12-generic' --class ubuntu --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os {
recordfail
set gfxpayload=$linux_gfx_mode
insmod gzio
insmod part_msdos
insmod ext2
set root='(hd0,msdos5)'
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root f4c7bc81-a0a0-4a01-b729-304df000c834
linux /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.38-12-generic root=UUID=f4c7bc81-a0a0-4a01-b729-304df000c834 ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.38-12-generic
}
menuentry 'Ubuntu, with Linux 2.6.38-12-generic (recovery mode)' --class ubuntu --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os {
recordfail
insmod gzio
insmod part_msdos
insmod ext2
set root='(hd0,msdos5)'
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root f4c7bc81-a0a0-4a01-b729-304df000c834
echo 'Loading Linux 2.6.38-12-generic ...'
linux /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.38-12-generic root=UUID=f4c7bc81-a0a0-4a01-b729-304df000c834 ro recovery nomodeset
echo 'Loading initial ramdisk ...'
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.38-12-generic
}
}
### END /etc/grub.d/10_linux ###
### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/20_linux_xen ###
### END /etc/grub.d/20_linux_xen ###
### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/20_memtest86+ ###
menuentry "Memory test (memtest86+)" {
insmod part_msdos
insmod ext2
set root='(hd0,msdos5)'
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root f4c7bc81-a0a0-4a01-b729-304df000c834
linux16 /boot/memtest86+.bin
}
menuentry "Memory test (memtest86+, serial console 115200)" {
insmod part_msdos
insmod ext2
set root='(hd0,msdos5)'
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root f4c7bc81-a0a0-4a01-b729-304df000c834
linux16 /boot/memtest86+.bin console=ttyS0,115200n8
}
### END /etc/grub.d/20_memtest86+ ###
### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/30_os-prober ###
menuentry "Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition (on /dev/sda1)" --class windows --class os {
insmod part_msdos
insmod ntfs
set root='(hd0,msdos1)'
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root 628C8AC18C8A8EEB
drivemap -s (hd0) ${root}
chainloader +1
}
### END /etc/grub.d/30_os-prober ###
### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/40_custom ###
# This file provides an easy way to add custom menu entries. Simply type the
# menu entries you want to add after this comment. Be careful not to change
# the 'exec tail' line above.
### END /etc/grub.d/40_custom ###
### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/41_custom ###
if [ -f $prefix/custom.cfg ]; then
source $prefix/custom.cfg;
fi
### END /etc/grub.d/41_custom ###
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
=============================== sda5/etc/fstab: ================================
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# Use 'blkid -o value -s UUID' to print the universally unique identifier
# for a device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name
# devices that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5).
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc nodev,noexec,nosuid 0 0
# / was on /dev/sda5 during installation
UUID=f4c7bc81-a0a0-4a01-b729-304df000c834 / ext4 errors=remount-ro 0 1
# swap was on /dev/sda6 during installation
UUID=9ef0dd58-a0c5-42a8-8bf3-2b0ef1b8c10b none swap sw 0 0
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
=================== sda5: Location of files loaded by Grub: ====================
GiB - GB File Fragment(s)
42.384140015 = 45.509623808 boot/grub/core.img 1
42.127483368 = 45.234040832 boot/grub/grub.cfg 1
56.166061401 = 60.307849216 boot/initrd.img-2.6.38-12-generic 2
39.194328308 = 42.084589568 boot/initrd.img-3.0.0-12-generic 3
39.533512115 = 42.448785408 boot/vmlinuz-2.6.38-12-generic 2
56.100017548 = 60.236935168 boot/vmlinuz-3.0.0-12-generic 2
39.194328308 = 42.084589568 initrd.img 3
56.166061401 = 60.307849216 initrd.img.old 2
56.100017548 = 60.236935168 vmlinuz 2
39.533512115 = 42.448785408 vmlinuz.old 2
======================== Unknown MBRs/Boot Sectors/etc: ========================
Unknown BootLoader on sda3
00000000 55 aa 03 e9 7a 00 93 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |U...z...........|
00000010 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |................|
00000020 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ff ff 00 00 00 9b cf 00 |................|
00000030 ff ff 00 00 00 93 cf 00 ff ff 00 00 00 9a 0f 00 |................|
00000040 ff ff 00 00 00 92 0f 00 27 00 20 00 00 00 00 00 |........'. .....|
00000050 ff ff 00 00 00 00 00 00 10 00 44 65 76 69 63 65 |..........Device|
00000060 56 4d 20 52 6f 6d 20 4c 6f 61 64 65 72 00 00 00 |VM Rom Loader...|
00000070 01 31 31 2f 32 32 2f 32 30 30 37 00 00 00 00 00 |.11/22/2007.....|
00000080 0e 58 2e a3 42 02 68 00 00 1f 68 00 00 07 57 2e |.X..B.h...h...W.|
00000090 8d 3e 00 06 2e 80 7d 20 03 75 17 9c 60 b8 03 00 |.>....} .u..`...|
000000a0 cd 10 61 9d 2e 8d 3e 8c 03 e8 fd 02 b4 00 50 cd |..a...>.......P.|
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000001d0 08 00 66 50 b8 14 02 8c c9 66 c1 e1 04 66 01 c1 |..fP.....f...f..|
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00000200
=============================== StdErr Messages: ===============================
unlzma: Decoder error
Many thanks
gaiamuse