Hi all
I have a problem with my xp / ubuntu box. First of all some history, I loaded Vista a long time ago on a seperate disk to the existing xp install, hated it and overwrote vista with ubuntu. No problem as ubuntu grub just put vista loader in as an option and I could go to there and choose "a previous version of windows" which i did as vista was no longer there. I recently had problems with my ubuntu setup, which had been upgraded to 9.04, and i did a new install. everything looked ok, grub had an entry for vista, looked a bit different to before but no problem, ubuntu booted fine. However when I try to load xp via the vista loadeer, expecting to see the "previous version of windows" all i get is the error 13 and nothing happens. Now I assume that if I still had vista on i could rewrite the vista boot loader using the vista tool, can't remember the name, but as i can't boot into any windows I am stuck. Where do i go from here? I could copy everything off onto external drive and start again but would rather not.
Hope you can help
Mark
Addendum:
output from fdisk:
Disk /dev/sda: 203.9 GB, 203928109056 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 24792 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x0b46ed7a
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 25 200781 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 26 23490 188482612+ 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 13765 23490 78124063+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda6 26 511 3903732 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda7 512 6590 48829536 83 Linux
Partition table entries are not in disk order
Disk /dev/sdb: 200.0 GB, 200049647616 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 24321 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x7b247b24
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 * 1 13193 105972741 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sdb2 13194 24321 89385660 5 Extended
/dev/sdb5 13194 24321 89385628+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
Disk /dev/sdc: 400.0 GB, 400088457216 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 48641 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x000264e4
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdc1 * 32104 32243 1124550 83 Linux
/dev/sdc2 2 48641 390700800 5 Extended
/dev/sdc5 2 32103 257859283+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sdc6 32244 32659 3341488+ 83 Linux
/dev/sdc7 32660 33168 4088511 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sdc8 33169 34187 8185086 83 Linux
/dev/sdc9 34188 48641 116101723+ 83 Linux
Partition table entries are not in disk order
I have a problem with my xp / ubuntu box. First of all some history, I loaded Vista a long time ago on a seperate disk to the existing xp install, hated it and overwrote vista with ubuntu. No problem as ubuntu grub just put vista loader in as an option and I could go to there and choose "a previous version of windows" which i did as vista was no longer there. I recently had problems with my ubuntu setup, which had been upgraded to 9.04, and i did a new install. everything looked ok, grub had an entry for vista, looked a bit different to before but no problem, ubuntu booted fine. However when I try to load xp via the vista loadeer, expecting to see the "previous version of windows" all i get is the error 13 and nothing happens. Now I assume that if I still had vista on i could rewrite the vista boot loader using the vista tool, can't remember the name, but as i can't boot into any windows I am stuck. Where do i go from here? I could copy everything off onto external drive and start again but would rather not.
Hope you can help
Mark
Addendum:
output from fdisk:
Disk /dev/sda: 203.9 GB, 203928109056 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 24792 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x0b46ed7a
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 25 200781 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 26 23490 188482612+ 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 13765 23490 78124063+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda6 26 511 3903732 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda7 512 6590 48829536 83 Linux
Partition table entries are not in disk order
Disk /dev/sdb: 200.0 GB, 200049647616 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 24321 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x7b247b24
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 * 1 13193 105972741 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sdb2 13194 24321 89385660 5 Extended
/dev/sdb5 13194 24321 89385628+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
Disk /dev/sdc: 400.0 GB, 400088457216 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 48641 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x000264e4
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdc1 * 32104 32243 1124550 83 Linux
/dev/sdc2 2 48641 390700800 5 Extended
/dev/sdc5 2 32103 257859283+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sdc6 32244 32659 3341488+ 83 Linux
/dev/sdc7 32660 33168 4088511 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sdc8 33169 34187 8185086 83 Linux
/dev/sdc9 34188 48641 116101723+ 83 Linux
Partition table entries are not in disk order
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