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25-Jan-2008, 08:37 PM #1
Solved: GRUB - Can't boot XP partition
I hope somebody can help me, I just installed Fedora 8 onto an unused partition on my HDD, but now I cannot boot into my previously installed Windows XP installation. If I remember correctly, I believe I've had this problem before, but I cannot recall how I fixed the problem, it was well over a year ago. I am a native windows user and don't have much experience with with linux, so any help would be appreciated.

This is the error message I recieved when attempting to boot into windows:
Code:
rootnoverify (hd0, 4)
chainloader +1

A disk read error occured
Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart
Here is my grub.conf file:
Code:
default=1
timeout=5
splashimage=(hd0,7)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz
hiddenmenu
title Fedora (2.6.23.1-42.fc8)
	root (hd0,7)
	kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.23.1-42.fc8 ro root=LABEL=/1 rhgb quiet
	initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.23.1-42.fc8.img
title Windows XP
	rootnoverify (hd0,4)
	chainloader +1
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25-Jan-2008, 09:06 PM #2
Nevermind, I figured out the problem. Thanks anyways, guys. Although my XP partition was on /dev/sda5, I remembered that the boot records or whatnot were on /dev/sda2 for some odd reason. It was caused by a mistake of mine from the last time I tried to dual boot an operating system and messed things up, so for some reason now all my windows boot files are on the wrong partition. But I'm not wiping out my drive just to fix it, sorry for the trouble.
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