Acer recovery will be the first partition on the drive followed by a second partition for Windows. Change the (hd0,0) to (hd0,1) and you should have windows back. Do not use the acer recovery partition as it will do exactly as you predict and lose the working Ubuntu and everything on windows.
<br><br>If this doesn't work then I recommend running "sudo fdisk -l" in Ubuntu to find which partition the windows partition is.<br><br>Harry<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 1/3/08, <b class="gmail_sendername">
Dominic Hibbs</b> <<a href="mailto:dominic.hibbs@gmail.com">dominic.hibbs@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Harry's suggestion (and many variations) give me a Windows option in the menu but they all go to Acer recovery which, I believe, looses all data from the system and might mess up the, working Ubuntu. Below is the last part of the last attempt.
<br><br>## ## End Default Options ##<br><br>title Windows XP Media Center Edition<br>root (hd0,0)<br>makeactive<br>chainloader +1<br><br>title Ubuntu 7.10, kernel 2.6.22-14-generic<br>root (hd0,4)
<br>kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.22-14-generic root=UUID=4386261c-ab0c-4807-bf4d-4f064f8fbdaf ro quiet splash<br>initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.22-14-generic<br>quiet<br><br>title Ubuntu 7.10, kernel 2.6.22-14-generic
(recovery mode)<br>root (hd0,4)<br>kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.22-14-generic root=UUID=4386261c-ab0c-4807-bf4d-4f064f8fbdaf ro single<br>initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.22-14-generic<br><br>title Ubuntu
7.10, kernel 2.6.20-15-generic<br>root (hd0,4)<br>kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.20-15-generic root=UUID=4386261c-ab0c-4807-bf4d-4f064f8fbdaf ro quiet splash<br>initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.20-15-generic<br>
quiet<br><br>title Ubuntu 7.10, kernel 2.6.20-15-generic (recovery mode)<br>root (hd0,4)<br>kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.20-15-generic root=UUID=4386261c-ab0c-4807-bf4d-4f064f8fbdaf ro single<br>initrd /boot/initrd.img-
2.6.20-15-generic<br><br>title Ubuntu 7.10, memtest86+<br>root (hd0,4)<br>kernel /boot/memtest86+.bin<br>quiet<br><br>### END DEBIAN AUTOMAGIC KERNELS LIST<br><br># This is a divider, added to separate the menu items below from the Debian
<br># ones.<br>title Other operating systems:<br>root<br><br><br># This entry automatically added by the Debian installer for a non-linux OS<br># on /dev/sda1<br>title Acer rescue<br>root (hd0,0)<br>
savedefault
<br>makeactive<br>chainloader +1<div><span class="e" id="q_1173f63f86694c43_1"><br><br><br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 02/01/2008, <b class="gmail_sendername">Harry Mills</b> <<a href="https://mail.google.com/a/hjmills.co.uk/?view=cm&tf=0&to=mail@hjmills.co.uk" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
mail@hjmills.co.uk</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">If the Windows boot loader is fine you can add it back in<br><br>title Windows XP Home Edition
<br>rootnoverify (hd0,0) # Adjust for your partition<br>chainloader +1<br><br>I think that should do it.<br>
<br><br><div><div><span><span class="gmail_quote">On 1/2/08, <b class="gmail_sendername">Dominic Hibbs</b> <<a href="https://mail.google.com/a/hjmills.co.uk/?view=cm&tf=0&to=dominic.hibbs@gmail.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
dominic.hibbs@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span></span></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div><span>
Help!!!!<br><br>I have just installed version 7.10 of Ubuntu.<br><br>I have lost the boot option for windows XP. How do I get it back - It was the default option.<br><br>Cheers Dominic<br><br>
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