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Duel Boot Ubuntu over XP on Seperate Patitions

Asked by Steve J

Why does ubuntu-9.04-desktop-i386 (latest version) provide a solution for duel boot that does not work?
The duel boot facility would have been a good solution, whilst I became familiar with the graphical interface of Ubuntu and continued to use the old Windows XP Prof.
The PC although containing ubuntu and XP now only boots to ubuntu.
All solutions viewed so far refer are complex technical corrections, which frankly are beyond most users.
I’m not a complete novice to IT and find the duel boot promise a bit of a let down.

Qu. Is there a repair programme that will help... or will in be an epic journey of learning to retrieve the functionality of XP without a reload from factory setting, involving BOOT.ini, and Grub, (hd0,0) and SUDO gparted.. etc

Symptoms
Ubuntu boot ok
XP is display as a choice during boot up, If selected the XP splash screen appears momentarily and them PC shuts down.

During the installation
XP was working 100% ok
Disc was checked for errors - OK
Defragged XP - OK
Selected the option to place Ubuntu on a separate petition, which used 50% of the exiting FAT35 (100 GB of 200 GB) - OK

Problem
XP no longer boots up, but the NTFS petition still contains XP on the first petition.

A simple none complicated solution would be much appreciated

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This question was originally filed as bug #437537.

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Neil Perry (nperry) said : 		#1

Thank you for taking the time to report this issue and helping to make Ubuntu better. Examining the information you have given us, this does not appear to be a bug report so we are closing it and converting it to a question in the support tracker. We appreciate the difficulties you are facing, but it would make more sense to raise problems you are having in the support tracker at https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu if you are uncertain if they are bugs. For help on reporting bugs, see https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ReportingBugs.

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zvacet (ivicakolic) said : 		#2

Type in terminal these commands (one at the time)

sudo fdisk -l

cat /boot/grub/menu.lst

Post output here.You can also run

sudo blkid

and compare output with of UUID with ones in /etc/fstab.if they don´t match then one from blkid command is right one and you should replace it in fstab.

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