Ubuntu

Windows Can't See Ubuntu

Asked by ankurtibrewal on 2007-05-23

I have 2 Hard Disks on my PC, 1 loaded with WinXP, the other with Ubuntu 6.06. I also use a 3rd external Hard Drive (USB) and USB Flash cards. Windows and Ubuntu recognize everything BUT the hard drive that the other OS is installed on. Windows no longer even acknowledges the presence of the 2nd internal Hard Drive after I installed Ubuntu. My Ubuntu 'sees' my Windows Drive at least, but is unable to mount. I have determined that if I want to share any files from one drive to the other, I have to save it to one of my external drives then reboot into the other OS. Time consuming and agravating.

How do I fix this? Mind you I am a total linux newby, I've been toying with the idea of abandoning Windows altogether for years but never had the courage till recently (Blue Screen of Death, Mal-ware, Viruses, Worms, etc...). I suffered a complete total system crash and ended up buying a new hard drive, motherboard and started over from scratch again, reinstalling Windows XP on my new hard drive. My old drive was still good so I reformated it and installed Ubuntu 6.06 on it, thinking that having each OS on it's own drive would reduce any conflicts, incompatabilities, or issues. And Ubuntu suprised the heck out of me too, but aside from accessing files from one to anther hard drive it has been a positive experience so far.

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Status:: Solved

For:: Ubuntu Edit question

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Solved by:: Ralph Janke

Solved:: 2007-05-23

Last query:: 2007-05-23

Last reply:: 2007-05-23

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Cesare Tirabassi (norsetto) said on 2007-05-23:

I think you can try to reinstall grub from the LiveCD using the grub shell.
You can enter the grub shell by typing the grub command in a terminal.
See "man grub" for information on the command's options.
And here is a link to the grub manual:

http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/html_node/

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Ralph Janke (txwikinger) said on 2007-05-23:

Thanks for the question.

Yes, you can. The easiest is to run the live CD for Feisty and open a terminal.

Then you can execute grub-install

Inside the shell of grub-install, you need to enter the following command sequence

root (hd<x>,<y>)
find /boot/grub/stage1
setup (hd<x>)
quit

<x> should be the number that refers to you harddrive you have installed ubuntu on (usually 0 if it is your first drive)
<y> should be the number that refers to the partition which has ubuntu installed into it (starting with 0, i.e. second partition would be 1).

After this you should be able to reboot and your grub menu should be shown again.

I hope this helps.

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Jayson Vaughn (thedonvaughn) said on 2007-05-23:

Hello,
Thank you for your question. This issue is common and is fixed easily. Here is a great guide describing how to restore grub into your master boot record.

http://ubuntuguide.org/wiki/Ubuntu:Feisty#How_to_restore_GRUB_menu_after_Windows_installation