Xp not showing on ubuntu's grub

**hansdown** · July 1st, 2013

Please note the android entries.

Just saying.

**cuzzo13** · July 1st, 2013

im not sure i know xp has a 60gb partition

**hansdown** · July 1st, 2013

In a windows environement,

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314477

Error message 3.

Doesn't help the boot problem.

**hansdown** · July 1st, 2013

Originally Posted by cuzzo13

im not sure i know xp has a 60gb partition

That is likely a restore partition.

**cuzzo13** · July 1st, 2013

Originally Posted by hansdown

That is likely a restore partition.

No I specifically installed it to that partition 60GB after making it.

**cuzzo13** · July 1st, 2013

Also the Android entries are there because I was trying to boot from sd chip because I don't have a DVD or CD right now but that's not working my laptop recognizes the drive in bios and I used the unetbootin and USB creator and about two or three other methods that were recommended for Ubuntu and XP USB installs none seem to work the bios is set to boot it first and both work from disk as I used them earlier today to install both on this system.

**cuzzo13** · July 1st, 2013

I ran chkdsk d: /r and got the failed to successfully scan disks...error may be caused by a corrupt file system...
Error message again.

**fantab** · July 1st, 2013

Ok if you are cent percent sure that you've installed XP on 60GB partition which is /dev/sda5:

5 177GB 241GB 64.8GB logical ntfs

then, Windows WILL NOT boot from Logical Partition. It has to be installed on the Primary Partition only, AFAIK.

**cuzzo13** · July 1st, 2013

how would i change it?

**oldfred** · July 1st, 2013

The first install of Windows has to be in a primary partition, but you can install additional copies of Windows in logical partitions. But all boot files for second install is usually moved to first install in primary partition and second install has no boot files.
Grub then will not find any bootable second install of Windows.

But you installed an older copy of Windows second which may not work or require you to run bdcEdit in Windows 7 to add the XP entry to the BCD.
The hal.dll is almost always an issue with boot.ini which could be the case with as BCD with Windows 7 has replaced the use of boot.ini. So XP may not have configured its boot.ini correctly.

Windows Boot files - you may have both of these in your Windows 7 install:
WinXP
/boot.ini /ntldr /NTDETECT.COM
Vista/7 (with 7 the first two files are usually in a separate 100MB boot partition)
/bootmgr /Boot/BCD /Windows/System32/winload.exe

Best to see details.

Post the link to the BootInfo report that this creates. Is part of Boot-Repair:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Boot-Info
Boot Repair -Also handles LVM, GPT, separate /boot and UEFI dual boot.:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Boot-Repair
You can repair many boot issues with this or 'Create BootInfo' report (Other Options) & post the link it creates, so we can see your exact configuration and diagnose advanced problems.
LighterWeight (Lubuntu based) Boot-RepairCD
http://sourceforge.net/projects/boot-repair-cd/files/
Full Ubuntu 13.04 liveDVD or USB Install with Boot-Repair included (for newer computers)
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/LinuxSecureRemix