I Don't See Windows after Dual-Boot Installation

Well, you could call the command blkid, this sounds more difficult then it is, go to accesories, chose terminal and type sudo blkid, you will be promted for you password, then it'll output some stuff about your harddisks and partitions, you can simply see if there are NTFS partitions in there, if there is atleast one then that'll be your windows installation.
If it doesn't appear in the grub boot loader menu (the menu that shows up when your PC starts) just post it here then I'll describe how you can put it back in there ;)

When I ran blkid, I got the following message:

/dev/hda1: UUID="4bae071b-3094-4622-a999-56425a722d76" SEC_TYPE="ext2" TYPE="ext3"
/dev/hda5: TYPE="swap" UUID="66480eb1-9034-4f6c-83d0-c272eae6bb43"

Can you help from here?

Please open a Terminal from the menu Applications->Accessories->Terminal and type:

sudo fdisk -l

the "-l" parameter is lower "-L"

give your user password when requested, you don't see nothing when you type it, then press enter.

copy and paste the result here

Then please open select and paste the content of /boot/grub/menu.lst file, to do this type:

sudo gedit /boot/grub/menu.lst

copy and paste the result here

Thank you

results from sudo fdisk -l:

Disk /dev/hda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xd2e1d2e1

   Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 9565 76830831 83 Linux
/dev/hda2 9566 9729 1317330 5 Extended
/dev/hda5 9566 9729 1317298+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris

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Results from /bott/grub:

# menu.lst - See: grub(8), info grub, update-grub(8)
# grub-install(8), grub-floppy(8),
# grub-md5-crypt, /usr/share/doc/grub
# and /usr/share/doc/grub-doc/.

## default num
# Set the default entry to the entry number NUM. Numbering starts from 0, and
# the entry number 0 is the default if the command is not used.
#
# You can specify 'saved' instead of a number. In this case, the default entry
# is the entry saved with the command 'savedefault'.
# WARNING: If you are using dmraid do not use 'savedefault' or your
# array will desync and will not let you boot your system.
default 0

## timeout sec
# Set a timeout, in SEC seconds, before automatically booting the default entry
# (normally the first entry defined).
timeout 3

## hiddenmenu
# Hides the menu by default (press ESC to see the menu)
hiddenmenu

# Pretty colours
#color cyan/blue white/blue

## password ['--md5'] passwd
# If used in the first section of a menu file, disable all interactive editing
# control (menu entry editor and command-line) and entries protected by the
# command 'lock'
# e.g. password topsecret
# password --md5 $1$gLhU0/$aW78kHK1QfV3P2b2znUoe/
# password topsecret

#
# examples
#
# title Windows 95/98/NT/2000
# root (hd0,0)
# makeactive
# chainloader +1
#
# title Linux
# root (hd0,1)
# kernel /vmlinuz root=/dev/hda2 ro
#

#
# Put static boot stanzas before and/or after AUTOMAGIC KERNEL LIST

### BEGIN AUTOMAGIC KERNELS LIST
## lines between the AUTOMAGIC KERNELS LIST markers will be modified
## by the debian update-grub script except for the default options below

## DO NOT UNCOMMENT THEM, Just edit them to your needs

## ## Start Default Options ##
## default kernel options
## default kernel options for automagic boot options
## If you want special options for specific kernels use kopt_x_y_z
## where x.y.z is kernel version. Minor versions can be omitted.
## e.g. kopt=root=/dev/hda1 ro
## kopt_2_6_8=root=/dev/hdc1 ro
## kopt_2_6_8_2_686=root=/dev/hdc2 ro
# kopt=root=UUID=4bae071b-3094-4622-a999-56425a722d76 ro

## Setup crashdump menu entries
## e.g. crashdump=1
# crashdump=0

## default grub root device
## e.g. groot=(hd0,0)
# groot=(hd0,0)

## should update-grub create alternative automagic boot options
## e.g. alternative=true
## alternative=false
# alternative=true

## should update-grub lock alternative automagic boot options
## e.g. lockalternative=true
## lockalternative=false
# lockalternative=false

## additional options to use with the default boot option, but not with the
## alternatives
## e.g. defoptions=vga=791 resume=/dev/hda5
# defoptions=quiet splash

## should update-grub lock old automagic boot options
## e.g. lockold=false
## lockold=true
# lockold=false

## Xen hypervisor options to use with the default Xen boot option
# xenhopt=

## Xen Linux kernel options to use with the default Xen boot option
# xenkopt=console=tty0

## altoption boot targets option
## multiple altoptions lines are allowed
## e.g. altoptions=(extra menu suffix) extra boot options
## altoptions=(recovery) single
# altoptions=(recovery mode) single

## controls how many kernels should be put into the menu.lst
## only counts the first occurence of a kernel, not the
## alternative kernel options
## e.g. howmany=all
## howmany=7
# howmany=all

## should update-grub create memtest86 boot option
## e.g. memtest86=true
## memtest86=false
# memtest86=true

## should update-grub adjust the value of the default booted system
## can be true or false
# updatedefaultentry=false

## should update-grub add savedefault to the default options
## can be true or false
# savedefault=false

## ## End Default Options ##

title Ubuntu 7.10, kernel 2.6.22-14-generic
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.22-14-generic root=UUID=4bae071b-3094-4622-a999-56425a722d76 ro quiet splash
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.22-14-generic
quiet

title Ubuntu 7.10, kernel 2.6.22-14-generic (recovery mode)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.22-14-generic root=UUID=4bae071b-3094-4622-a999-56425a722d76 ro single
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.22-14-generic

title Ubuntu 7.10, memtest86+
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/memtest86+.bin
quiet

### END DEBIAN AUTOMAGIC KERNELS LIST

We can try to force the system to try to boot from the /dev/hda3 partition may be your Windows partition, to do this, please open a Terminal from the menu Applications->Accessories->Terminal and type:

sudo gedit /boot/grub/menu.lst

give your user password when requested, you don't see nothing when you type it, then press enter.

Add at the end of file the rows below:

title Windows
root (hd0,2)
makeactive
chainloader +1

save and exit.

Then to upgrade grub, type:

sudo upgrade-grub

and to reboot your pc

sudo reboot

At reboot when you see the "GRUB" row press ESC and select the "Windows" item then press enter.

Please give some feedback.

Hope this helps.

We can try to force the system to try to boot from the /dev/hda3 partition may be your Windows partition, to do this, please open a Terminal from the menu Applications->Accessories->Terminal and type:

sudo gedit /boot/grub/menu.lst

give your user password when requested, you don't see nothing when you type it, then press enter.

Add at the end of file the rows below:

title Windows
root (hd0,2)
makeactive
chainloader +1

save and exit.

Then to upgrade grub, type:

sudo update-grub

and to reboot your pc

sudo reboot

At reboot when you see the "GRUB" row press ESC and select the "Windows" item then press enter.

Please give some feedback.

Hope this helps.

marcobra you are not suggesting the right thing, if you look at the blkid and the fdisk -l you can see that there is no longer a windows partition.
lampoman, sorry but I'm afraid you chose a wrong option while installing and now you entire disk has been linux-formated.
I suggest you re-install windows (this will probably delete ubuntu again) and then reinstall ubuntu next to it, it shouldn't give a problem then ;)

Bert, you are right, i never used the blkid command.

Yes i'm giving some suggestion that must will not work here, there are .not. NTFS or FAT listed partitions to use.

Sorry...

Try to reinstall Windows and after Ubuntu is the best solution.

Here a good howto video: http://screencasts.ubuntu.com/Installing_Ubuntu_with_Windows_Dual-Boot

Hope this helps

Thanks for your help, guys...

But I'm okay...I had backed-up everything from My Documents onto CD-RWs and was able to load them into Ubuntu...

I don't figure there's anything else I'll need from Windows...

--Brian

Thanks Bert Van de Poel, that solved my question.