cannot boot Vista after installing Ubuntu

try this:

title Windows Vista
root (hd1,0)
makeactive
chainloader +1
boot

it will say "Starting Up" but the hard drive won't be moving.

Is (hd1,0) the same as hard disk 2? Then it is just a data drive for me.

My Vista was originally on hard drive 1.

My computer is the HP m7760n by the way.

also, if I press F11 when boot up to the Recovery screen, it brings me to the Ubuntu boot page. (grub)

Can you post the output of "dmesg" after booting Ubuntu?
Did you change the connections of your drives before/after installing Ubuntu?

wow that's a long print out: (and nope, i didn't do any re-connection of drives)

[ 0.000000] Linux version 2.6.20-15-generic (root@palmer) (gcc version 4.1.2 (Ubuntu 4.1.2-0ubuntu4)) #2 SMP Sun Apr 15 07:36:31 UTC 2007 (Ubuntu 2.6.20-15.27-generic)
[ 0.000000] BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
[ 0.000000] sanitize start
[ 0.000000] sanitize end
[ 0.000000] copy_e820_map() start: 0000000000000000 size: 0000000000098400 end: 0000000000098400 type: 1
[ 0.000000] copy_e820_map() type is E820_RAM
[ 0.000000] copy_e820_map() start: 0000000000098400 size: 0000000000007c00 end: 00000000000a0000 type: 2
[ 0.000000] copy_e820_map() start: 00000000000f0000 size: 0000000000010000 end: 0000000000100000 type: 2
[ 0.000000] copy_e820_map() start: 0000000000100000 size: 000000007f5e0000 end: 000000007f6e0000 type: 1
[ 0.000000] copy_e820_map() type is E820_RAM
[ 0.000000] copy_e820_map() start: 000000007f6e0000 size: 0000000000003000 end: 000000007f6e3000 type: 4
[ 0.000000] copy_e820_map() start: 000000007f6e3000 size: 000000000000d000 end: 000000007f6f0000 type: 3
[ 0.000000] copy_e820_map() start: 000000007f6f0000 size: 0000000000010000 end: 000000007f700000 type: 2
[ 0.000000] copy_e820_map() start: 00000000f0000000 size: 0000000004000000 end: 00000000f4000000 type: 2
[ 0.000000] copy_e820_map() start: 00000000fec00000 size: 0000000001400000 end: 0000000100000000 type: 2
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 0000000000098400 (usable)
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 0000000000098400 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000007f6e0000 (usable)
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 000000007f6e0000 - 000000007f6e3000 (ACPI NVS)
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 000000007f6e3000 - 000000007f6f0000 (ACPI data)
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 000000007f6f0000 - 000000007f700000 (reserved)
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 00000000f0000000 - 00000000f4000000 (reserved)
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 00000000fec00000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
[ 0.000000] 1142MB HIGHMEM available.
[ 0.000000] 896MB LOWMEM available.
[ 0.000000] found SMP MP-table at 000f5ee0
[ 0.000000] Entering add_active_range(0, 0, 521952) 0 entries of 256 used
[ 0.000000] Zone PFN ranges:
[ 0.000000] DMA 0 -> 4096
[ 0.000000] Normal 4096 -> 229376
[ 0.000000] HighMem 229376 -> 521952
[ 0.000000] early_node_map[1] active PFN ranges
[ 0.000000] 0: 0 -> 521952
[ 0.000000] On node 0 totalpages: 521952
[ 0.000000] DMA zone: 32 pages used for memmap
[ 0.000000] DMA zone: 0 pages reserved
[ 0.000000] DMA zone: 4064 pages, LIFO batch:0
[ 0.000000] Normal zone: 1760 pages used for memmap
[ 0.000000] Normal zone: 223520 pages, LIFO batch:31
[ 0.000000] HighMem zone: 2285 pages used for memmap
[ 0.000000] HighMem zone: 290291 pages, LIFO batch:31
[ 0.000000] DMI present.
[ 0.000000] ACPI: RSDP (v002 HPQOEM ) @ 0x000f82b0
[ 0.000000] ACPI: XSDT (v001 HPQOEM SLIC-CPC 0x42302e31 AWRD 0x00000000) @ 0x7f6e30c0
[ 0.000000] ACPI: FADT (v003 HPQOEM SLIC-CPC 0x42302e31 AWRD 0x00000000) @ 0x7f6e7a80
[ 0.000000] ACPI: SLIC (v001 HPQOEM SLIC-CPC 0x42302e31 AWRD 0x00000000) @ 0x7f6e7cc0
[ 0.000000] ACPI: HPET (v001 HPQOEM SLIC-CPC 0x42302e31 AWRD 0x00000098) @ 0x7f6e7e80
[ 0.000000] ACPI: MCFG (v001 HPQOEM SLIC-CPC 0x42302e31 AWRD 0x00000000) @ 0x7f6e7f00
[ 0.000000] ACPI: MADT (v001 HPQOEM SLIC-CPC 0x42302e31 AWRD 0x00000000) @ 0x7f6e7bc0
[ 0.000000] ACPI: SSDT (v001 HPQOEM SLIC-CPC 0x42302e31 AWRD 0x00000000) @ 0x7f6e7f80
[ 0.000000] ACPI: SSDT (v001 HPQOEM SLIC-CPC 0x42302e31 AWRD 0x00000000) @ 0x7f6e8410
[ 0.000000] ACPI: DSDT (v001 HPQOEM SLIC-CPC 0x00001000 MSFT 0x03000000) @ 0x00000000
[ 0.000000] ACPI: PM-Timer IO Port: 0x408
[ 0.000000] ACPI: Local APIC address 0xfee00000
[ 0.000000] ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x00] lapic_id[0x00] enabled)
[ 0.000000] Processor #0 6:15 APIC version 20
[ 0.000000] ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x01] lapic_id[0x01] enabled)
[ 0.000000] Processor #1 6:15 APIC version 20
[ 0.000000] ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x02] lapic_id[0x02] disabled)
[ 0.000000] ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x03] lapic_id[0x03] disabled)
[ 0.000000] ACPI: LAPIC_NMI (acpi_id[0x00] high edge lint[0x1])
[ 0.000000] ACPI: LAPIC_NMI (acpi_id[0x01] high edge lint[0x1])
[ 0.000000] ACPI: LAPIC_NMI (acpi_id[0x02] high edge lint[0x1])
[ 0.000000] ACPI: LAPIC_NMI (acpi_id[0x03] high edge lint[0x1])
[ 0.000000] ACPI: IOAPIC (id[0x04] address[0xfec00000] gsi_base[0])
[ 0.000000] IOAPIC[0]: apic_id 4, version 32, address 0xfec00000, GSI 0-23
[ 0.000000] ACPI: INT_SRC_OVR (bus 0 bus_irq 0 global_irq 2 dfl dfl)
[ 0.000000] ACPI: INT_SRC_OVR (bus 0 bus_irq 9 global_irq 9 high level)
[ 0.000000] ACPI: IRQ0 used by override.
[ 0.000000] ACPI: IRQ2 used by override.
[ 0.000000] ACPI: IRQ9 used by override.
[ 0.000000] Enabling APIC mode: Flat. Using 1 I/O APICs
[ 0.000000] ACPI: HPET id: 0x8086a201 base: 0xfed00000
[ 0.000000] Using ACPI (MADT) for SMP configuration information
[ 0.000000] Allocating PCI resources starting at 80000000 (gap: 7f700000:70900000)
[ 0.000000] Detected 2134.038 MHz processor.
[ 18.321429] Built 1 zonelists. Total pages: 517875
[ 18.321432] Kernel command line: root=UUID=52f12b02-660f-4cc1-9a6b-e7512dc10ec9 ro quiet splash
[ 18.321547] mapped APIC to ffffd000 (fee00000)
[ 18.321549] mapped IOAPIC to ffffc000 (fec00000)
[ 18.321552] Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
[ 18.321554] Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done.
[ 18.321559] Initializing CPU#0
[ 18.321605] PID hash table entries: 4096 (order: 12, 16384 bytes)
[ 18.322639] Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
[ 18.322817] Dentry cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
[ 18.323028] Inode-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
[ 18.381112] Memory: 2058564k/2087808k available (1992k kernel code, 27864k reserved, 893k data, 328k init, 1170304k highmem)
[ 18.381120] virtual kernel memory layout:
[ 18.381120] fixmap : 0xfff4e000 - 0xfffff000 ( 708 kB)
[ 18.381121] pkmap : 0xff800000 - 0xffc00000 (4096 kB)
[ 18.381122] vmalloc : 0xf8800000 - 0xff7fe000 ( 111 MB)
[ 18.381123] lowmem : 0xc0000000 - 0xf8000000 ( 896 MB)
[ 18.381124] .init : 0xc03d7000 - 0xc0429000 ( 328 kB)
[ 18.381125] .data : 0xc02f2264 - 0xc03d16d4 ( 893 kB)
[ 18.381126] .text : 0xc0100000 - 0xc02f2264 (1992 kB)
[ 18.381128] Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode... Ok.
[ 18.381250] hpet0: at MMIO 0xfed00000, IRQs 2, 8, 0
[ 18.381255] hpet0: 3 64-bit timers, 14318180 Hz
[ 18.382256] Using HPET for base-timer
[ 18.461108] Calibrating delay using timer specific routine.. 4271.04 BogoMIPS (lpj=8542084)
[ 18.461149] Security Framework v1.0.0 initialized
[ 18.461152] SELinux: Disabled at boot.
[ 18.461165] Mount-cache hash table entries: 512
[ 18.461260] CPU: After generic identify, caps: bfebfbff 20100000 00000000 00000000 0000e3bd 00000000 00000001
[ 18.461266] monitor/mwait feature present.
[ 18.461267] using mwait in idle threads.
[ 18.461270] CPU: L1 I cache: 32K, L1 D cache: 32K
[ 18.461272] CPU: L2 cache: 2048K
[ 18.461274] CPU: Physical Processor ID: 0
[ 18.461275] CPU: Processor Core ID: 0
[ 18.461277] CPU: After all inits, caps: bfebfbff 20100000 00000000 00003940 0000e3bd 00000000 00000001
[ 18.461284] Compat vDSO mapped to ffffe000.
[ 18.461286] Remapping vsyscall page to ffffe000
[ 18.461295] Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
[ 18.477165] SMP alternatives: switching to UP code
[ 18.477446] Early unpacking initramfs... done
[ 18.732358] ACPI: Core revision 20060707
[ 18.747001] ACPI: Looking for DSDT in initramfs... file /DSDT.aml not found, using machine DSDT.
[ 18.757510] CPU0: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU 6400 @ 2.13GHz stepping 06
[ 18.757527] SMP alternatives: switching to SMP code
[ 18.757587] Booting processor 1/1 eip 3000
[ 18.767897] Initializing CPU#1
[ 18.848410] Calibrating delay using timer specific routine.. 4267.98 BogoMIPS (lpj=8535962)
[ 18.848416] CPU: After generic identify, caps: bfebfbff 20100000 00000000 00000000 0000e3bd 00000000 00000001
[ 18.848419] monitor/mwait feature present.
[ 18.848422] CPU: L1 I cache: 32K, L1 D cache: 32K
[ 18.848423] CPU: L2 cache: 2048K
[ 18.848425] CPU: Physical Processor ID: 0
[ 18.848426] CPU: Processor Core ID: 1
[ 18.848427] CPU: After all inits, caps: bfebfbff 20100000 00000000 00003940 0000e3bd 00000000 00000001
[ 18.848829] CPU1: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU 6400 @ 2.13GHz stepping 06
[ 18.848844] Total of 2 processors activated (8539.02 BogoMIPS).
[ 18.848985] ENABLING IO-APIC IRQs
[ 18.849149] ..TIMER: vector=0x31 apic1=0 pin1=2 apic2=-1 pin2=-1
[ 18.996145] checking TSC synchronization across 2 CPUs: passed.
[ 0.003994] Brought up 2 CPUs
[ 4.853063] migration_cost=50
[ 4.853278] Booting paravirtualized kernel on bare hardware
[ 4.853337] Time: 10:49:52 Date: 09/15/107
[ 4.853360] NET: Registered protocol family 16
[ 4.853425] EISA bus registered
[ 4.853429] ACPI: bus type pci registered
[ 4.877019] PCI: PCI BIOS revision 3.00 entry at 0xf1e60, last bus=1
[ 4.877021] PCI: Using configuration type 1
[ 4.877022] Setting up standard PCI resources
[ 4.902228] ACPI: Interpreter enabled
[ 4.902232] ACPI: Using IOAPIC for interrupt routing
[ 4.902815] ACPI: PCI Root Bridge [PCI0] (0000:00)
[ 4.902820] PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
[ 4.903080] Boot video device is 0000:00:02.0
[ 4.903794] PCI: Firmware left 0000:01:08.0 e100 interrupts enabled, disabling
[ 4.903859] PCI: Transparent bridge - 0000:00:1e.0
[ 4.903881] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0._PRT]
[ 4.914123] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.HUB0._PRT]
[ 4.916045] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] (IRQs 3 4 *5 7 9 10 11 12 14 15)
[ 4.916252] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] (IRQs 3 4 5 *7 9 10 11 12 14 15)
[ 4.916459] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] (IRQs 3 *4 5 7 9 10 11 12 14 15)
[ 4.916664] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] (IRQs 3 4 5 7 9 10 *11 12 14 15)
[ 4.916873] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKE] (IRQs 3 4 5 7 9 *10 11 12 14 15)
[ 4.917080] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKF] (IRQs 3 4 5 7 9 10 11 12 14 15) *0, disabled.
[ 4.917285] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNK0] (IRQs 3 4 5 7 9 10 11 12 14 15) *0, disabled.
[ 4.917492] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNK1] (IRQs *3 4 5 7 9 10 11 12 14 15)
[ 4.917716] Linux Plug and Play Support v0.97 (c) Adam Belay
[ 4.917724] pnp: PnP ACPI init
[ 4.919534] pnp: PnP ACPI: found 13 devices
[ 4.919537] PnPBIOS: Disabled by ACPI PNP
[ 4.919574] PCI: Using ACPI for IRQ routing
[ 4.919576] PCI: If a device doesn't work, try "pci=routeirq". If it helps, post a report
[ 4.930284] NET: Registered protocol family 8
[ 4.930286] NET: Registered protocol family 20
[ 4.930631] pnp: 00:09: ioport range 0x400-0x4bf could not be reserved
[ 4.930846] PCI: Ignore bogus resource 6 [0:0] of 0000:00:02.0
[ 4.930849] PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:1e.0
[ 4.930851] IO window: e000-efff
[ 4.930855] MEM window: f4000000-fbffffff
[ 4.930858] PREFETCH window: disabled.
[ 4.930870] PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1e.0 to 64
[ 4.930893] NET: Registered protocol family 2
[ 4.983355] IP route cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
[ 4.983447] TCP established hash table entries: 131072 (order: 8, 1048576 bytes)
[ 4.983885] TCP bind hash table entries: 65536 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
[ 4.984094] TCP: Hash tables configured (established 131072 bind 65536)
[ 4.984096] TCP reno registered
[ 4.999499] checking if image is initramfs... it is
[ 5.503902] Freeing initrd memory: 6989k freed
[ 5.504438] audit: initializing netlink socket (disabled)
[ 5.504453] audit(1192445388.596:1): initialized
[ 5.504531] highmem bounce pool size: 64 pages
[ 5.504598] VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.1
[ 5.504614] Dquot-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order 0, 4096 bytes)
[ 5.504658] io scheduler noop registered
[ 5.504660] io scheduler anticipatory registered
[ 5.504661] io scheduler deadline registered
[ 5.504670] io scheduler cfq registered (default)
[ 5.504906] isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
[ 5.857242] isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
[ 5.874060] Real Time Clock Driver v1.12ac
[ 5.874190] hpet_resources: 0xfed00000 is busy
[ 5.874207] Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 4 ports, IRQ sharing enabled
[ 5.874711] mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
[ 5.875146] RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 65536K size 1024 blocksize
[ 5.875263] input: Macintosh mouse button emulation as /class/input/input0
[ 5.875294] Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2
[ 5.875296] ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
[ 5.875465] PNP: PS/2 Controller [PNP0303:PS2K,PNP0f13:PS2M] at 0x60,0x64 irq 1,12
[ 5.877687] serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1
[ 5.877690] serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
[ 5.877769] EISA: Probing bus 0 at eisa.0
[ 5.877795] EISA: Detected 0 cards.
[ 5.907878] TCP cubic registered
[ 5.907884] NET: Registered protocol family 1
[ 5.907904] Starting balanced_irq
[ 5.907909] Using IPI No-Shortcut mode
[ 5.907993] ACPI: (supports S0 S1 S3 S4 S5)
[ 5.908032] Magic number: 11:996:830
[ 5.908092] hash matches device ptyqd
[ 5.908233] Freeing unused kernel memory: 328k freed
[ 5.909370] Time: tsc clocksource has been installed.
[ 5.924113] input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard as /class/input/input1
[ 7.071757] Capability LSM initialized
[ 7.097929] ACPI: Fan [FAN] (on)
[ 7.100654] ACPI (exconfig-0455): Dynamic SSDT Load - OemId [HPQOEM] OemTableId [SLIC-CPC] [20060707]
[ 7.100688] ACPI Exception (acpi_processor-0677): AE_NOT_FOUND, Processor Device is not present [20060707]
[ 7.100695] ACPI Exception (acpi_processor-0677): AE_NOT_FOUND, Processor Device is not present [20060707]
[ 7.101580] ACPI: Thermal Zone [THRM] (-270 C)
[ 7.391376] usbcore: registered new interface driver usbfs
[ 7.391395] usbcore: registered new interface driver hub
[ 7.391413] usbcore: registered new device driver usb
[ 7.441758] USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v3.0
[ 7.441991] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1d.0[A] -> GSI 23 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
[ 7.442001] PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1d.0 to 64
[ 7.442005] uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.0: UHCI Host Controller
[ 7.442169] uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.0: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
[ 7.442196] uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.0: irq 16, io base 0x0000fe00
[ 7.442599] usb usb1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[ 7.442701] hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
[ 7.442707] hub 1-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
[ 7.447389] SCSI subsystem initialized
[ 7.451359] libata version 2.20 loaded.
[ 7.456667] ieee1394: Initialized config rom entry `ip1394'
[ 7.458599] e100: Intel(R) PRO/100 Network Driver, 3.5.17-k2-NAPI
[ 7.458602] e100: Copyright(c) 1999-2006 Intel Corporation
[ 7.550101] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1d.1[B] -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 17
[ 7.550112] PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1d.1 to 64
[ 7.550116] uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.1: UHCI Host Controller
[ 7.550137] uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.1: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2
[ 7.550164] uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.1: irq 17, io base 0x0000fd00
[ 7.550258] usb usb2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[ 7.550276] hub 2-0:1.0: USB hub found
[ 7.550281] hub 2-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
[ 7.650395] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1d.2[C] -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 18
[ 7.650403] PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1d.2 to 64
[ 7.650406] uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.2: UHCI Host Controller
[ 7.650429] uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.2: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 3
[ 7.650453] uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.2: irq 18, io base 0x0000fc00
[ 7.650531] usb usb3: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[ 7.650548] hub 3-0:1.0: USB hub found
[ 7.650552] hub 3-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
[ 7.754892] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1d.3[D] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 19
[ 7.754900] PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1d.3 to 64
[ 7.754904] uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.3: UHCI Host Controller
[ 7.754924] uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.3: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 4
[ 7.754948] uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.3: irq 19, io base 0x0000fb00
[ 7.755027] usb usb4: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[ 7.755050] hub 4-0:1.0: USB hub found
[ 7.755057] hub 4-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
[ 7.861419] ata_piix 0000:00:1f.1: version 2.10ac1
[ 7.861430] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1f.1[A] -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 18
[ 7.861444] PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1f.1 to 64
[ 7.861478] ata1: PATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0x000101f0 ctl 0x000103f6 bmdma 0x0001fa00 irq 14
[ 7.861500] ata2: PATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0x00010170 ctl 0x00010376 bmdma 0x0001fa08 irq 15
[ 7.861516] scsi0 : ata_piix
[ 8.028078] ATA: abnormal status 0x7F on port 0x000101f7
[ 8.028090] scsi1 : ata_piix
[ 8.028143] ata2: port disabled. ignoring.
[ 8.029146] ahci 0000:00:1f.2: version 2.1
[ 8.029162] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1f.2[B] -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 17
[ 8.101130] usb 4-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 2
[ 8.265142] usb 4-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[ 8.507997] usb 4-2: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 3
[ 8.807179] usb 4-2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[ 8.810247] usbcore: registered new interface driver libusual
[ 8.812866] Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
[ 8.812917] scsi2 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
[ 8.812952] usb-storage: device found at 2
[ 8.812953] usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
[ 8.812980] scsi3 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
[ 8.813010] usb-storage: device found at 3
[ 8.813011] usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
[ 8.813013] usbcore: registered new interface driver usb-storage
[ 8.813016] USB Mass Storage support registered.
[ 9.031522] PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1f.2 to 64
[ 9.031530] ahci 0000:00:1f.2: AHCI 0001.0100 32 slots 4 ports 3 Gbps 0xf impl RAID mode
[ 9.031533] ahci 0000:00:1f.2: flags: 64bit ncq led clo
[ 9.031596] ata3: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xf882c100 ctl 0x00000000 bmdma 0x00000000 irq 17
[ 9.031650] ata4: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xf882c180 ctl 0x00000000 bmdma 0x00000000 irq 17
[ 9.031703] ata5: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xf882c200 ctl 0x00000000 bmdma 0x00000000 irq 17
[ 9.031763] ata6: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xf882c280 ctl 0x00000000 bmdma 0x00000000 irq 17
[ 9.031768] scsi4 : ahci
[ 9.518582] ata3: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300)
[ 9.521671] ata3.00: ATA-7: SAMSUNG SP2504C, VT100-49, max UDMA7
[ 9.521674] ata3.00: 488397168 sectors, multi 0: LBA48 NCQ (depth 31/32)
[ 9.545492] ata3.00: configured for UDMA/133
[ 9.545498] scsi5 : ahci
[ 10.029806] ata4: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300)
[ 10.032898] ata4.00: ATA-7: SAMSUNG SP2504C, VT100-49, max UDMA7
[ 10.032901] ata4.00: 488397168 sectors, multi 0: LBA48 NCQ (depth 31/32)
[ 10.048713] ata4.00: configured for UDMA/133
[ 10.048719] scsi6 : ahci
[ 10.532986] ata5: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 300)
[ 10.688261] ata5.00: ATAPI, max UDMA/33
[ 10.688263] ata5.00: applying bridge limits
[ 10.845598] ata5.00: configured for UDMA/33
[ 10.845605] scsi7 : ahci
[ 11.156664] ata6: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 300)
[ 11.156771] scsi 4:0:0:0: Direct-Access ATA SAMSUNG SP2504C VT10 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5
[ 11.157261] scsi 5:0:0:0: Direct-Access ATA SAMSUNG SP2504C VT10 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5
[ 11.158387] scsi 6:0:0:0: CD-ROM TSSTcorp CD/DVDW TS-H653L 0414 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5
[ 11.158950] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:01:08.0[A] -> GSI 20 (level, low) -> IRQ 20
[ 11.182090] e100: eth0: e100_probe: addr 0xfbffe000, irq 20, MAC addr 00:18:F3:E8:49:B8
[ 11.182126] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:01:01.0[A] -> GSI 20 (level, low) -> IRQ 20
[ 11.236623] SCSI device sda: 488397168 512-byte hdwr sectors (250059 MB)
[ 11.236634] ohci1394: fw-host0: OHCI-1394 1.0 (PCI): IRQ=[20] MMIO=[fbfff000-fbfff7ff] Max Packet=[1024] IR/IT contexts=[8/8]
[ 11.243605] sda: Write Protect is off
[ 11.243607] sda: Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
[ 11.243645] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1d.7[A] -> GSI 23 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
[ 11.243654] PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1d.7 to 64
[ 11.243657] ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: EHCI Host Controller
[ 11.243683] ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 5
[ 11.243707] PCI: cache line size of 32 is not supported by device 0000:00:1d.7
[ 11.243712] ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: irq 16, io mem 0xfdfff000
[ 11.244649] SCSI device sda: write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
[ 11.247597] ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: USB 2.0 started, EHCI 1.00, driver 10 Dec 2004
[ 11.247673] usb usb5: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[ 11.247696] hub 5-0:1.0: USB hub found
[ 11.247701] hub 5-0:1.0: 8 ports detected
[ 11.248554] SCSI device sda: 488397168 512-byte hdwr sectors (250059 MB)
[ 11.248961] sda: Write Protect is off
[ 11.248963] sda: Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
[ 11.248977] SCSI device sda: write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
[ 11.248981] sda: sda1 sda2 < sda5 >
[ 11.287487] sd 4:0:0:0: Attached scsi disk sda
[ 11.287538] SCSI device sdb: 488397168 512-byte hdwr sectors (250059 MB)
[ 11.287548] sdb: Write Protect is off
[ 11.287550] sdb: Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
[ 11.287565] SCSI device sdb: write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
[ 11.287605] SCSI device sdb: 488397168 512-byte hdwr sectors (250059 MB)
[ 11.287613] sdb: Write Protect is off
[ 11.287615] sdb: Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
[ 11.287640] SCSI device sdb: write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
[ 11.287642] sdb: sdb1
[ 11.297357] sd 5:0:0:0: Attached scsi disk sdb
[ 11.301034] sd 4:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg0 type 0
[ 11.301051] sd 5:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg1 type 0
[ 11.301065] sr 6:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 5
[ 11.307055] sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 40x/40x writer dvd-ram cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray
[ 11.307060] Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
[ 11.307099] sr 6:0:0:0: Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0
[ 11.479182] Attempting manual resume
[ 11.479184] swsusp: Resume From Partition 8:5
[ 11.479186] PM: Checking swsusp image.
[ 11.479323] PM: Resume from disk failed.
[ 11.514915] kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
[ 11.514923] EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
[ 11.591040] usb 5-7: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 2
[ 11.725858] usb 5-7: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[ 11.725973] scsi8 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
[ 11.726084] usb-storage: device found at 2
[ 11.726086] usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
[ 11.966166] usb 5-8: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 3
[ 12.235456] usb 5-8: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[ 12.235683] scsi9 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
[ 12.235783] usb 4-1: USB disconnect, address 2
[ 12.235919] usb-storage: device found at 3
[ 12.235921] usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
[ 12.365504] usb 4-2: USB disconnect, address 3
[ 12.514481] ieee1394: Host added: ID:BUS[0-00:1023] GUID[0011d8000102a11e]
[ 16.716717] usb-storage: device scan complete
[ 16.717943] scsi 8:0:0:0: Direct-Access Generic USB SD Reader 1.00 PQ: 0 ANSI: 0
[ 16.720544] scsi 8:0:0:1: Direct-Access Generic USB CF Reader 1.01 PQ: 0 ANSI: 0
[ 16.721941] scsi 8:0:0:2: Direct-Access Generic USB SM Reader 1.02 PQ: 0 ANSI: 0
[ 16.724536] scsi 8:0:0:3: Direct-Access Generic USB MS Reader 1.03 PQ: 0 ANSI: 0
[ 16.733454] sd 8:0:0:0: Attached scsi removable disk sdc
[ 16.733492] sd 8:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg3 type 0
[ 16.734443] sd 8:0:0:1: Attached scsi removable disk sdd
[ 16.734473] sd 8:0:0:1: Attached scsi generic sg4 type 0
[ 16.735441] sd 8:0:0:2: Attached scsi removable disk sde
[ 16.735471] sd 8:0:0:2: Attached scsi generic sg5 type 0
[ 16.736442] sd 8:0:0:3: Attached scsi removable disk sdf
[ 16.736474] sd 8:0:0:3: Attached scsi generic sg6 type 0
[ 17.225193] usb-storage: device scan complete
[ 17.260511] scsi 9:0:0:0: Direct-Access ST330083 1A 4.40 PQ: 0 ANSI: 0
[ 17.261611] SCSI device sdg: 586072368 512-byte hdwr sectors (300069 MB)
[ 17.262485] sdg: Write Protect is off
[ 17.262487] sdg: Mode Sense: 03 00 00 00
[ 17.262489] sdg: assuming drive cache: write through
[ 17.263434] SCSI device sdg: 586072368 512-byte hdwr sectors (300069 MB)
[ 17.264350] sdg: Write Protect is off
[ 17.264352] sdg: Mode Sense: 03 00 00 00
[ 17.264353] sdg: assuming drive cache: write through
[ 17.264355] sdg: sdg1 < sdg5 >
[ 17.294382] sd 9:0:0:0: Attached scsi disk sdg
[ 17.294423] sd 9:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg7 type 0
[ 18.119171] e100: eth0: e100_watchdog: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex
[ 18.771367] Linux agpgart interface v0.102 (c) Dave Jones
[ 18.825571] agpgart: Detected an Intel 945G Chipset.
[ 18.825988] agpgart: Detected 7932K stolen memory.
[ 18.841392] agpgart: AGP aperture is 256M @ 0xe0000000
[ 19.063028] input: PC Speaker as /class/input/input2
[ 19.127242] ath_hal: module license 'Proprietary' taints kernel.
[ 19.127768] ath_hal: 0.9.18.0 (AR5210, AR5211, AR5212, RF5111, RF5112, RF2413, RF5413)
[ 19.177611] wlan: 0.8.4.2 (0.9.3)
[ 19.194580] ath_pci: 0.9.4.5 (0.9.3)
[ 19.194626] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:01:03.0[A] -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 17
[ 19.195049] wifi%d: unable to attach hardware: 'Hardware self-test failed' (HAL status 14)
[ 19.195062] ACPI: PCI interrupt for device 0000:01:03.0 disabled
[ 19.217860] input: ImExPS/2 Generic Explorer Mouse as /class/input/input3
[ 19.318789] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1b.0[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 19
[ 19.318804] PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1b.0 to 64
[ 19.367709] NET: Registered protocol family 17
[ 19.527938] hda_codec: Unknown model for ALC883, trying auto-probe from BIOS...
[ 19.775022] fuse init (API version 7.8)
[ 19.825345] lp: driver loaded but no devices found
[ 19.861344] Adding 6048432k swap on /dev/disk/by-uuid/7ff554d3-103c-404b-ac29-0c68b339db4e. Priority:-1 extents:1 across:6048432k
[ 20.067082] EXT3 FS on sda1, internal journal
[ 23.175300] NET: Registered protocol family 10
[ 23.175376] lo: Disabled Privacy Extensions
[ 25.034285] No dock devices found.
[ 25.106742] input: Power Button (FF) as /class/input/input4
[ 25.106856] ACPI: Power Button (FF) [PWRF]
[ 25.127938] input: Power Button (CM) as /class/input/input5
[ 25.128082] ACPI: Power Button (CM) [PWRB]
[ 25.138933] Using specific hotkey driver
[ 25.227506] ibm_acpi: ec object not found
[ 25.311680] pcc_acpi: loading...
[ 29.854993] [drm] Initialized drm 1.1.0 20060810
[ 29.857784] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:02.0[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 19
[ 29.858465] [drm] Initialized i915 1.6.0 20060119 on minor 0
[ 30.563603] ppdev: user-space parallel port driver
[ 31.009428] apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x07 (Driver version 1.16ac)
[ 31.009431] apm: disabled - APM is not SMP safe.
[ 31.157234] Bluetooth: Core ver 2.11
[ 31.157284] NET: Registered protocol family 31
[ 31.157285] Bluetooth: HCI device and connection manager initialized
[ 31.157288] Bluetooth: HCI socket layer initialized
[ 31.169716] Bluetooth: L2CAP ver 2.8
[ 31.169720] Bluetooth: L2CAP socket layer initialized
[ 31.287102] Bluetooth: RFCOMM socket layer initialized
[ 31.287113] Bluetooth: RFCOMM TTY layer initialized
[ 31.287115] Bluetooth: RFCOMM ver 1.8
[ 41.891612] NTFS driver 2.1.28 [Flags: R/O MODULE].
[ 41.891774] NTFS-fs warning (device sdg5): parse_options(): Option utf8 is no longer supported, using option nls=utf8. Please use option nls=utf8 in the future and make sure utf8 is compiled either as a module or into the kernel.
[ 42.116276] NTFS volume version 3.1.
[ 46.584252] eth0: no IPv6 routers present

What did you have in sda before installing Ubuntu? Did you have any RAID 0/1 configuration with sdb1?

Can you access the sdb1 NTFS partition from Linux, i.e. something like:

$ sudo mount.ntfs-3g /dev/sdb1
$ ls /mnt
$ df -h

The output of the previous commands may help.

title Windows Vista
root (hd1,0)
savedefault
makeactive
chainloader +1

i got to try the above tonight...

but i suspect whether it will work, because it sets default in addition to the other stuff

if it works, then

title Windows Vista
root (hd1,0)
makeactive
chainloader +1

would have worked too?

i don't think my computer has the expensive RAID.
The Vista was on Drive C:
Drive D: was merely for data files.
I can try access the sdb1 NTFS partition from Linux, but i suspect it is the data files hard drive.
my Vista should be on Drive C.... i think that means /dev/sda

it is the HP m7760n desktop

the spec is as follows: (i didn't add or remove any hardware to it)

  http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/ca/en/ho/WF06b/12132708-12133156-12133158-12133158-12133158-79481422-79912400.html

OK.

From your first post, it seems that sda (hd0) is now enterely used by
Ubuntu. Did you select to reduce the Windows partition at installation
or to install Ubuntu on the entire drive?

If after installing, you don't have a Windows boot option
automatically configured, you probably installed in the whole disk and
your windows partitions in that drive are gone. Recovering from there
after you have boot into Ubuntu and used the system (write to disk) is
from hard to impossible.

Data in sdb (hd1) should be safe. It would be good to know what you
have there as I told you in the previous post.

2007/10/15, kenneth <email address hidden>:
> Question #15144 on Ubuntu changed:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/15144
>
> kenneth gave more information on the question:
> i don't think my computer has the expensive RAID.
> The Vista was on Drive C:
> Drive D: was merely for data files.
> I can try access the sdb1 NTFS partition from Linux, but i suspect it is the data files hard drive.
> my Vista should be on Drive C.... i think that means /dev/sda
>
> it is the HP m7760n desktop
>
> the spec is as follows: (i didn't add or remove any hardware to it)
>
> http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/ca/en/ho/WF06b/12132708-12133156-12133158-12133158-12133158-79481422-79912400.html
>
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> subscriber of the question.
>

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Jorge Juan

no kidding, my whole drive C:'s content is gone?

Ubuntu never warned me about that....

shouldn't it ask "You are absolutely sure your whole hard drive's data is erased?" ?

shouldn't it ask "You are absolutely sure that your whole hard drive's data will be erased?" ?

for one thing, if i specified the primary partition and Ubuntu used that whole partition, what about the Recovery Partition I had for restoring Vista?

the good news is, if I go to "/"

and view its "Property"

then it says content is 497GB... which is the total of my C: drive and D: drive...

but the possible bad news is, it says free space is 210GB....

before installing Ubuntu, my D: drive was full (250GB). and my C: drive was about 235GB full (out of 250GB).

At install time, Ubuntu should give you a few option like (I write from memory):

- Install in the whole disk (delete any previous data in the whole disk)
- Makes free space in the disk (reducing the Windows partition) and install in the freed space (this keeps your windows installation and creates an option to boot windows in the boot menu automatically)
- Manual partitioning, that let you use a partitioning program to create/manage your partitions by hand.

I do not think there is an option to install "in the primary partition", may be the "primary disk". If you select to install in the whole disk, everything is deleted, including your windows recovery partition, unless it is in a different disk.

There is a tool called "testdisk" that may be useful to rebuild your former partition table. Then you may be able to access the data, but some of the data is likely to be corrupted by the Ubuntu installation. Of course, you should use test disk from an external media like CD. It should be included in recovery CD's like SysrescCD (www.sysresccd.org).

It would be helpful to know if:
- Did ubuntu informed you about other installed operating systems? If not, you should file a bug.
- What exact option did you used at install time.
- Did you make a backup of sensible data?
- Did you read that you should have made a backup and that Ubuntu Gutsy is still beta software? :)

Good luck.

I don't think I chose any option that says "Delete any previous data in the whole disk"

I think I chose "Make free space in disk"

What i installed was 7.04, not Gutsy

i tried

$ sudo mount.ntfs-3g /dev/sdb1
$ ls /mnt
$ df -h

but the first line wouldn't work...

One of your 250gb disks is completely taken by ubuntu. It's hard to tell what letter would windows give to it, but it would be probably c.

However your second 250gb seems like it may have a boot loader, try adding two more lines to your vista entry in the menu.lst, like here:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/How_to_dual-boot_Ubuntu_and_XP_after_installing_them_separately_on_two_HDs

An entry for Vista should be added to your grub automatically. Your volumes should have icons on your desktop, there should be one for sdb1 and one for sdg5. There are no more windows partitions. If an icon is missing, then you can mount it manually, make a mount point: "sudo mkdir -pv /media/sdb1", mount it there: "sudo mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sdb1 /media/sdb1" and browse to /media/sdb1 to check what's on it.

If you had some critical files on c, it's not impossible to restore most of them, however you'll probably need professional help for that.