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bmtpolo 06-10-2011 07:53 PM

Yeah it's possible that's going on because it looks like that's the case. Although I'm pretty sure that I didn't run fixboot or fixmbr before. Maybe windows saw that they were there so it didn't do anything with them, then I told it to install windows to sda2. Not really sure. I just know that my wife is really really frustrated with me.

jefro 06-11-2011 03:13 PM

One of the reasons I try to steer people into a virtual machine instead of dual boots. Keeps MS and wife working as they should. Happy and no BSOD.

Might be time to cut your losses and consider a vm.

bmtpolo 06-11-2011 08:58 PM

Well the good news I've figured out that I can boot windows if I use a Super GRUB cd. I then checked what it used for it's grub settings to boot windows and it was just

Quote:

root (hd0,1)
chainloader +1
However, when I update the menu.lst for that, it doesn't work. So I'm not sure what to do next.

andrewthomas 06-11-2011 09:57 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by bmtpolo (Post 4383012)
Well the good news I've figured out that I can boot windows if I use a Super GRUB cd. I then checked what it used for it's grub settings to boot windows and it was just



However, when I update the menu.lst for that, it doesn't work. So I'm not sure what to do next.

Was the SGD using GRUB2?

That would explain the partition numbering.

bmtpolo 06-12-2011 12:15 AM

Yeah SGD was using Grub 2


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