XP not accessible after 9.10 install to separate partition
Hello All,
My name is J and I live in Whitehorse and work in Albian Sands, Alberta Canada, where it was -51 C two days ago.
While sitting in the room with not much to do, I downloaded the .iso and made the disk for Ubuntu 9.10. I then shrunk the partition for XP to make unused space between it and the NTFS data partition.
I then used the 9.10 disk for installing Linux and all seemed to work well. Ubuntu came up, and did its updating and I personalized the mail settings, etc.
When that was done, I used Linux several times, and it continues to work well. The first time I tried XP to get data I want for Linux, I found that XP will no longer boot, and, it is still in an "active" partition.
Grub has a listing for XP (listed as Vista) but fails to start it. This may be due in part to an artifact left from a time that I had XP and Vista on the machine in a dual boot configuration, and that XP was still loading from the Vista boot rather than the original XP boot... I suspect this because Grub shows the boot line for XP as Vista, which was removed long ago.
Bottom line...
How can I get XP, which appears to still be there in its original partition, to boot from Grub.
While I am computer literate where it comes to MS, Linux is new to me.
Help?
Thanks,
"J"
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