I cannot open Windows XP after dual boot.

Try this to open Nautilus as root. Then you can probably access your folder.

Type this in a terminal. sudo nautilus

Try this on console

sudo mkdir /media/Windows

sudo fdisk -l

Lets assume this is the output

---------------------------------------------------------------------
Disk /dev/sda: 250.0 GB, 250059350016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x8f800000

   Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 133 1068291 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda2 134 30401 243127710 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 134 30401 243127678+ 83 Linux

Disk /dev/sdb: 1017 MB, 1017118720 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 123 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00024a69

   Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 1 123 987966 b W95 FAT32
---------------------------------------------------------------------

and /dev/sdb1 is your windows partition. you have to mount it first.

sudo mount /dev/sdb1 /media/Windows

if error occured saying its already mounted. unmount it by typing this

sudo umount /dev/sdb1 then mount it again. If it worked then you cannot write anything, try to use ntfs-3g.

More info about mounting partitions https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MountingWindowsPartitions/ThirdPartyNTFS3G
http://www.tuxfiles.org/linuxhelp/fstab.html

Hi Rob. Thank you for the suggestion. I typed as you suggested and
got the following:-

seahorse nautilus module initialized
Initializing nautilus-share extension

** (nautilus:6737): WARNING **: Unable to add monitor: Operation not
supported
Nautilus-Share-Message: Called "net usershare info" but it failed: 'net
usershare' returned error 255: net usershare: cannot open usershare
directory /var/lib/samba/usershares. Error No such file or directory
Please ask your system administrator to enable user sharing.

Which I must say leaves me none the wiser !
cheers brian .

On Tue, 2009-08-18 at 23:27 +0000, Rob Frerejean wrote:
> Your question #80374 on grub in ubuntu changed:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub/+question/80374
>
> Status: Open => Answered
>
> Rob Frerejean proposed the following answer:
> Try this to open Nautilus as root. Then you can probably access your
> folder.
>
> Type this in a terminal. sudo nautilus
>

Hi. I type in your first two suggested lines in terminal and the
following appeared:-

Disk /dev/sda: 40.0 GB, 40060403712 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4870 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xef4fef4f

   Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 3240 26025268+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2 4591 4870 2249100 82 Linux swap /
Solaris
/dev/sda3 3241 4577 10739452+ 83 Linux

Partition table entries are not in disk order

Sadly this does not mean very much to me !

cheers brian

On Wed, 2009-08-19 at 04:39 +0000, kabotage wrote:
> Your question #80374 on nautilus in ubuntu changed:
> https://answers.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/+question/80374
>
> kabotage proposed the following answer:
> Try this on console
>
>
> sudo mkdir /media/Windows
>
> sudo fdisk -l
>
> Lets assume this is the output
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> Disk /dev/sda: 250.0 GB, 250059350016 bytes
> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
> Disk identifier: 0x8f800000
>
> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
> /dev/sda1 * 1 133 1068291 82 Linux swap / Solaris
> /dev/sda2 134 30401 243127710 5 Extended
> /dev/sda5 134 30401 243127678+ 83 Linux
>
> Disk /dev/sdb: 1017 MB, 1017118720 bytes
> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 123 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
> Disk identifier: 0x00024a69
>
> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
> /dev/sdb1 1 123 987966 b W95 FAT32
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> and /dev/sdb1 is your windows partition. you have to mount it first.
>
> sudo mount /dev/sdb1 /media/Windows
>
> if error occured saying its already mounted. unmount it by typing this
>
> sudo umount /dev/sdb1 then mount it again. If it worked then you cannot
> write anything, try to use ntfs-3g.
>
> More info about mounting partitions https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MountingWindowsPartitions/ThirdPartyNTFS3G
> http://www.tuxfiles.org/linuxhelp/fstab.html
>

Hi :)

Have you fixed this yet or still having troubles?
Please let us know!

Good luck and regards from
Tom :)

Hi Tom. Thank you for your email. IN a word the answer to your
question is " NO " ...

i believe you sent me a suggestion but I cannot find it and must assume
I have deleted it !

However I did try the suggestion from kabotage who proposed the
following:-

   " sudo mkdir /media/Windows "

   " sudo fdisk -l "

I did this an got this response:-

  " Disk /dev/sda: 40.0 GB, 40060403712 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4870 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xef4fef4f

   Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 3240 26025268+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2 4591 4870 2249100 82 Linux swap /
Solaris
/dev/sda3 3241 4577 10739452+ 83 Linux

Partition table entries are not in disk order "

when I tried to mount '/dev/sda1' I got the following response...

  "brian@brian-kratos:~$ sudo mount /dev/sda1 /media/Windows
$MFTMirr does not match $MFT (record 1).
Failed to mount '/dev/sda1': Input/output error
NTFS is either inconsistent, or you have hardware faults, or you have a
SoftRAID/FakeRAID hardware. In the first case run chkdsk /f on Windows
then reboot into Windows TWICE. The usage of the /f parameter is very
important! If you have SoftRAID/FakeRAID then first you must activate
it and mount a different device under the /dev/mapper/ directory, (e.g.
/dev/mapper/nvidia_eahaabcc1). Please see the 'dmraid' documentation
for the details."

  This all leaves me none the wiser ! In fact I find the whole thing
rather disheartening.

 I am using the DVD Version 8.04 LTS which accompanied the 'The Official
ubuntu Book' and I am wondering whether to try and save my files that I
have got to work and then just try and load/install 'ubuntu 9.04' which
I have downloaded on to DVD which I have burnt.

I am beginning to think that I will get get my Windows stuff at all !

Also I am wondering about communicating with 'The Linux Forum' to air
these (and other problems).

This sad;y i smy current position.

Cheers Brian

On Thu, 2009-08-27 at 18:06 +0000, Tom wrote:
> Your question #80374 on nautilus in ubuntu changed:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/+question/80374
>
> Status: Open => Answered
>
> Tom proposed the following answer:
> Hi :)
>
> Have you fixed this yet or still having troubles?
> Please let us know!
>
> Good luck and regards from
> Tom :)
>

Hi

I am sorry to hear that you are still having these problems. Given that this is quite an old thread now please could you re-post this question here at Launchpad
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+addquestion
so that new people at the front desk get to see it. launchpad doesn't have a good way of dealing with questions once they have become a few days old so it would be good to re-post it so that more people can see it.

Other good ways of getting help
http://www.linuxquestions.org
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Signpost/Questions#help

I haven't heard of 'The Linux Forum' but they sound like a good place to copy&paste your questions into in the hope of getting some good answers to all this. Where-ever you post questions about this into a forum like this it would be good to use this link to this thread
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/80374
so that people can see the useful info that you have given in here. That should help keep your question quite short.

Good luck and regards from
Tom :)

Hi :)

Have you been able to try the new Ubuntu 10.04 before it gets officially released?
http://www.ubuntulinux.org/testing/lucid/beta2
Trying it as a LiveCd or as an extra dual/multi-boot would be ideal. Developers and everyone are keen to try to iron out any problems before 10.04 gets officially released so you might find faster & more effective answers to your bug reports which would make 10.04 work better on your system for you

Thanks and regards from
Tom :)

Thanks Tom for your email.

I have put Ubuntu on the back burner for the forseeable future and I am back
to using Windows again. For me this is the easier and more workable option
that allows me to function reasonably well !

Thanks again for your help.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Tom" <email address hidden>
To: <email address hidden>
Sent: Monday, April 12, 2010 10:48 PM
Subject: Re: [Question #80374]: I cannot open Windows XP after dual boot.

Your question #80374 on Ubuntu changed:
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/80374

Tom posted a new comment:
Hi :)

Have you been able to try the new Ubuntu 10.04 before it gets officially
released?
http://www.ubuntulinux.org/testing/lucid/beta2
Trying it as a LiveCd or as an extra dual/multi-boot would be ideal.
Developers and everyone are keen to try to iron out any problems before
10.04 gets officially released so you might find faster & more effective
answers to your bug reports which would make 10.04 work better on your
system for you

Thanks and regards from
Tom :)

--
You received this question notification because you are a direct
subscriber of the question.

Hi :)

I hope you were able to recover your data and managed to get Windows working without a complete reinstall. I am sorry that Ubuntu did not work easily on your system, usually it does but that's really not helpful, sorry.

Since you did have a really good go at getting it sorted you will have picked up some good linux skills. If you want to try linux again then i would recommend a different distro if you use the same machine, and try their LiveCd session first
http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=mandriva
http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=suse
http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=fedora
but check to make sure the machine meets their min.spec. There are a lot of very much lighter-weight distros around such as
http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=wolvix
http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=slitaz
Thsi last one, sliTaz, is amazingly tiny. Just a 30Mb download and very easy to burn onto Cd to try their LiveCd. Of course it doesn't have the full functionality of Ubuntu but it might be fun to have a quick look at as a LiveCd

Many apologies that things didn't work out last time!
Good luck and regards from
Tom :)

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