Re: Ubuntu-Windows

On Mon, 27 Feb 2006 20:37:04 -0800, chevysrock39 wrote:

I just installed Ubuntu onto my XP machine. Ubuntu works fine, but now
XP wont boot. It comes up with the windows check-disk screen, then says
"chkdsk not found. Skipping check" then it restarts. What is wrong?

Did I format my Windows partition?

I don't know, did you?


This doesn't look good, but it also seems weird. If you had formatted
your entire disk, I would expect no traces of XP.

In your previous post of Jan. 25, you indicated you have a current
backup, so you have that as a fall back position if this turns out to be
the worst case, or a case which was outside of your intended target.

From Ubuntu, run these commands (for all hard disks in your system):

# fdisk -l /dev/hda
# fdisk -l /dev/hdb

How does the output correlate with the planned table that I suggested you
make here:

http://groups.google.com/group/comp.os.linux.setup/msg/bfcb7ea71181b671

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