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I just installed Mandriva on my machine but sadly Windows did not get added to the grub menu. I am having problems adding it, I think Windows did not get killed but am not sure.
Take a look at pixellany's entry recommendation. If your last post is what you entered you did not do it correctly, you left out the second map entry. sda2 looks like a pretty small partition though, so try it and if it doesn't work try it for sda3.
I found out that resizing a vista partition can cause vista not to boot up or recognize the partition. Here is a link that shows you what to do after resizing a vista partition. Scroll down until you see this paragraph
Once it's done, quit, remove the live cd and then reboot your computer. Unless you are very lucky, you'll be greeted with this horrible error message saying "Windows Failed to start. A recent hardware or software change might be the cause.
Start reading from there and you should get vista back.
Thanks for the help.
However after reading lots of advice I now have this in my menu.lst file
Code:
timeout 10
color black/cyan yellow/cyan
gfxmenu (hd0,4)/boot/gfxmenu
default 0
title linux
kernel (hd0,4)/boot/vmlinuz BOOT_IMAGE=linux root=UUID=0185a4f0-bb82-450c-9cde-5e8767c1c8e0 resume=/dev/sda6 splash=silent vga=788
initrd (hd0,4)/boot/initrd.img
title linux-nonfb
kernel (hd0,4)/boot/vmlinuz BOOT_IMAGE=linux-nonfb root=UUID=0185a4f0-bb82-450c-9cde-5e8767c1c8e0 resume=/dev/sda6
initrd (hd0,4)/boot/initrd.img
title failsafe
kernel (hd0,4)/boot/vmlinuz BOOT_IMAGE=failsafe root=UUID=0185a4f0-bb82-450c-9cde-5e8767c1c8e0 failsafe
initrd (hd0,4)/boot/initrd.img
title windows
root (hd0,1)
map (hd0,1)(hd0,0)
map (hd0,0)(hd0,1)
makeactive
chainloader +1
title windows-0
root (hd0,0)
chainloader +1
title windows-1
rootnoverify(hd0,0)
makeactive
chainloader +1
boot
Windows - gives file error
windows-0 gives me Windows or Dell Diagnostics which I spent 18 hours running with no benefit
windows -1 gives unrecognised device error.
Is all lost ??? Do I have to install Windows and of course then Linux again ????
You have a FAT16 and two NTFS partitions. If booting from sda2 didn't work try sda3, sda3 is over 20 times the size of sda2. Use your first menu.lst entry for windows with the map commands and change the (hd0,1) entries to (hd0,2). Your first partition (hd0,0) is your Dell diagnostics so it has to be sda2 (hd0,1) or sda3 (hd0,2).
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