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Old 04-21-2005, 08:00 AM   #1
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Installing windows AFTER linux


I'm running ubuntu on my box now and I need to install windows again and have a dual boot. I read how to recover my linux installation after installing windows on the ubuntu wiki, but when I went to install windows I got to the "setup is inspecting your computers hardware configuration" screen and then it goes to a blank screen and just sits there. Any ideas?
 
Old 04-21-2005, 09:13 AM   #2
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Ideas: broken Windows installation media, broken hardware.
 
Old 04-21-2005, 10:44 AM   #3
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I had similar problems two or three times in two or three different computers and the problem was always windows went crazy with the partition table. Have you tried booting dos and executing fdisk?

And... what windows are you trying to install?
 
Old 04-21-2005, 10:50 AM   #4
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http://www.osloader.com/ is one simple solution, but, you could figure it out, if you search http://scroogle.com http://kartoo.com or http://google.com

I do know that a lot of folk have up to 100 OSes mixed into their drives, and all are bootable!
 
Old 05-01-2005, 10:15 PM   #5
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Ok, I got windows installed again and reinstalled grub but I can't get it to boot into windows.
Here's the modified part of my menu.lst in /boot/grub

title Microsoft Windows
root (hd0, 0)
rootnoverify
makeactive
chainloader+1
savedefault

Heres the output of fdisk -l
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 2432 19535008+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda2 2433 9541 57103042+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda3 9542 9729 1510110 5 Extended
/dev/hda5 9542 9729 1510078+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris

Any idea of what I need to do?
 
Old 05-03-2005, 06:23 PM   #6
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*bump
 
Old 05-04-2005, 09:52 AM   #7
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(hd0, 0) is hda1, try (hd0, 1)
 
Old 05-04-2005, 11:36 AM   #8
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Ok, I had tried that before this is the error I get.
Code:
Booting "Microsoft Windows"

root (hd0,1)

Error 11: Unrecognized Device String

Press any key to continue...
 
Old 05-06-2005, 02:45 AM   #9
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I don't know if your grub.lst works the same as this, but this seems to work with ntfs filesystems:

title Microsoft Windows
rootnoverify (hd0,1)
chainloader +1
 
Old 05-06-2005, 11:54 AM   #10
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Microsoft Windows HATES other OS's. This is to further encourage their monopoly.

Windows does everything in its power to corrupt other OS's on your computer.

Solution: If you have to do linux then windows. You'll have to reinstall whatever bootloader you're using and the only way you'll be able to accompish this is to use an installation cd or even a live cd might work.

like for mandrake, just press F1 then click reinstall boatloader.

You're using ubuntu but that should help clear it up. Hopefully you can install the bootloader from that cd.
 
Old 05-06-2005, 05:21 PM   #11
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I got it working. I reinstalled grub to the mbr and changed the menu.lst and got it working. hooray.
 
  


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