Re: Installing Windows

Greetings,

Installed windows XP and it works as it promises :)

But unfortunately now I can boot only to windows XP and am already missing
Ubuntu.

Please tell me a way to recover the grub? Is there a way to do it?

Thanks
Rajat

On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 12:01 AM, Alfred JILKA <ubuntu@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

Owen Townend schrieb:



On 2/29/08, Rajat <a.rajat@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi All,

I have been using Ubuntu 7.10 for quite some time now and am extremely
happy with the performance. However working random things on Windows seems
inevitable.

There are some problems with my XP and I am trying to reinstall it.
However the system does not want to boot from the cd (original). It is
promprting for using keystroke and then stays idle for ages. Is there
anything that I need to change at the Ubuntu setup before installing
Windows?

Please do let me know as its kinda urgent and I need to get stuffs ready
in half a day's time.

Thanks a lot
Rajat

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Hey,
If you're repartitioning the disk and going to be dual booting Ubuntu/XP
then do your repartitioning from the Ubuntu desktop live cd first. Windows
doesn't natively know about and so can't work with linux partitions during
the installer so the only option it will give you will wipe Ubuntu.
Another important point is that the earlier windows install disks can't
recognise SATA disks, so if you've upgraded since your last attempt at a
fresh windows install you may need to add drivers using something like nlite
or bartpe. Despite this, you should at least see the windows disk booting
and get to the point where it complains there's nowhere to install to. For
it to not even start there's probably something else at fault here and the
chain only includes a few links - disk, cdrom, cable, (rest-of-system). With
the assumption that everything works fine inside Ubuntu that points to
a faulty disk. Trying to boot from the Ubuntu desktop install/livecd should
confirm that.

Once you actually get the install disk booting there are several steps
to getting it all set up and there are several decent guides
around for exactly what you're doing (from the
googling I did getting triple xp/ubuntu/vista set up) and plenty of us
that have done it before, just ask.

cheers,
Owen.

And I'd like to add yet one more reason, why it might not install: make
sure, that in BIOS the MBR-protection (whatever they may call it in your
mobo's BIOS) is set to 'off'.

Just my €0.2, Alfred

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