No nothing was done to vista before the
ubuntu install. As I recall after the and
rebooting and closing. I started the computer
and in the grub menu selected the first first
vista choice. It put up something and I think
I pressed enter (do not remember way to exit)
It put up some stuff. Did a hard shutdown.
When I rebooted I selected the second vista
choice and tried IE, start, my computer tried
a few choices and nothing worked.
Guess I know what my chore is.

Thanks for all the help with this problem.

I'm no egg-spurt, but if it were me, I would give this a try:
http://linuxexpresso.wordpress.com/2...ion-in-ubuntu/

(It's like running "fsck" on your Windows partition...but since fsck doesn't work on NTFS fielsystems, you do the above, instead.)

No guarantees...but it's easy to do...and won't hurt anything- and may just fix it.

If you are quick you can select vista from grub menu & start pressing F8 during it's bootup & repair.

Or from the windows Desktop
Enter command
Which will check & repair files.

Re: Posts 17 & 18 will report back by end of week.
Some must do stuff

Here's what I did.
Grub2
Ubuntu with linux 3.5.0-49-Generic
Memory Test (memtest86+)
Memory Test (memtest86+ console 115200)
Windows Vista (Loader (on /dev/sda1)
Windows Vista (Loader (on /dev/sda2)

Apparantly I began the corruption by clicking
on the first Windows Vista. A string of error
message appeared.

Now on to the repair attempt.
I followed the instructions supplied in post # 17
and got the following:
ray@tallguy:~$ sudo fdisk -l
[sudo] password for ray:

Disk /dev/sda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders, total 312581808 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x0880dabe

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 2048 20482047 10240000 27 Hidden NTFS WinRE
/dev/sda2 * 20482048 166539263 73028608 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda3 166539264 239972363 36716550 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda4 239974398 312580095 36302849 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 239974400 308408319 34216960 83 Linux
/dev/sda6 308410368 312580095 2084864 82 Linux swap / Solaris
ray@tallguy:~$

ray@tallguy:~$ sudo ntfsfix /dev/sda1
Mounting volume... NTFS signature is missing.
FAILED
Attempting to correct errors... NTFS signature is missing.
FAILED
Failed to startup volume: Invalid argument
NTFS signature is missing.
Trying the alternate boot sector
NTFS signature is missing.
Unrecoverable error
Volume is corrupt. You should run chkdsk.
ray@tallguy:~$

Then I followed the instruction in post # 18 and after a few minutes
got the following:

Windows Resource Protection found corrupt files and
successfully repaired them. Details are included in
the CBS.Log windir\Logs\CBS\CBSlog. For example:
c:\windows\Logs/CBS\CBS.log.

I want to thank the readers and those who provided the
solutions to this problem.
I might add the owner of the computer is also very pleased.

Glad to know it worked!

Excellent! [Ironic that I should be giving advice though, as i am currently having a GRUB problem of my own that I can't figure out! )]