no windows option in grub.tried mounting
Well, last night my mom was working on our home pc in windows (duel booting linux and windows) and she says it froze in the middle of printing something. She restarted it and it went into linux (does automatically, as it is first choice in grub).
So I attempted to restart in windows again and to my utter shock, in grub, there was no "Windows" option. Linux version is Freespie 2.0.0. Windows is Microsoft Windows (without SP2...tried to install it but took forever, not normal i think). Some info according to GNOME Partition Editor in Linux: Win: 25.4GB with 18.6GB used. NTFS and on partition /dev/hda1 Mounted on /mnt/winxp another partition for files (not Win or Linux): 25.4GB with 18.1GB used. NTFS and on partition /dev/hda5 Mounted on /mnt/dos Linux: 19.4GB with 2.4GB used. reiserf and on partition /dev/hda8 I went to "Diagnostics" and it says: ...$LogFile indicated unclean shutdown (0,0) ... Failed to mount 'dev/hda5': Operation not supported Mount is denied because NTFS logfile is unclean... Then says to 1. boot windows and shut it down cleanly (CANT!!!) or 2. if you have a removable device, then in taskbar...'Safely Remove Hardware'...blah blah blah or 3. Run ntfsfix version 1.31.1 on Linux or 4. Mount the NTFS volume with the 'ro' option in read-only mode I tried #3 and it says everything went well...then tried booting to Windows and nothing in grub (UGH!) I tried #4 and did the following: Code:
sudo mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/winxp -t ntfs -r Code:
sudo mount /dev/hda5 /mnt/dos -t ntfs -r I tried rebooting again and still no Windows in grub I tried changing /mnt/winxp permissions Code:
sudo chmod 777 /mnt/winxp Browsed the internet and found out how to view /mnt/winxp as root: Code:
go to "Run command" (or alt-F2) I went back into "Diagnostics" and it said to use ntfs-3g and to force mount the drive I already had ntfs-3g installed and so I tried it. In /mnt/dos it worked (could view files) but nothing in /mnt/winxp Sooooo.....what else should I do. I've tried mounting and still can't boot windows. |
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just realized I should put this topic in General
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Why not just put in your windows cd boot to it and restore your MBR, then after you have windows up and running, use a live-cd to restore Grub?
Or just restore your windows entery take a look at this howto by saikee it has about anything on restoring Grub you need. |
I put in my WinXP cd and in shell, put in "fixmbr" says "bash: fixmbr: command not found"
I'll try to repair MBR with my windows cd...but dont ever recall anything about MBR in Windows...we'll see... |
booted from WinXP CD
Put in WinXP cd and booted from it.
I went to Install, then repair..it checked my disks and i think thats pretty much it. It then restarted and still no change. I didn't see anything about MBR... |
no windows in grub
ok firstly load into Linux
Edit /etc/grub.conf Check to see if there is a reference to windows there if not here is a copy of my grub loader.. Code:
# grub.conf generated by Ubuntu Code:
title Windows XP Hope this helps Kai |
no grub.conf
Quote:
timberwolf90 |
I thought about booting from a floppy but none of my floppy's I had would work...
So I used my USB thumb drive. I used Super Grub...hehehe SO I edited bios and first choice was USB-ZIP and amazingly Windows was there in grub! Thanks for the advice! |
NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
UGH!
I decided to restart, just to make sure it would work normally, and windows disappeared again! I really have no idea what to do now... please help!! Getting very frustrated |
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