[Klug-general] Dual Boot ... assistance please

Alan Buchel alan at communitytechnology.org.uk
Wed Jan 19 17:24:26 UTC 2011


We have used this to great effect:

http://www.supergrubdisk.org/wiki/AutoSuperGrubDisk


On 19/01/11 09:28, Paul Lawrence wrote:
> I have a Dell D400
> laptop with Win XP that I use for demonstrations and I used the Ubuntu 10.10 live
> CD to create a dual boot. All was fine. As far as I can tell, after a Ubuntu update,
> I lost the XP option on startup. Couldn’t see anything on Ubuntu forums to help
> so I used the live CD to try and repair and ended up creating another Ubuntu partition!
> A bit fed up with the whole thing I used the Win XP CD to repair Windows but
> now I can only see the Windows partition. On a 60G drive, I can see 30G. I
> really don’t want to spend a whole day from scratch reloading XP, patches and SPs
> if I don’t have to. Aim is to get back to a stable dual boot machine. Back to
> basics I am sure but would anyone be kind enough to point me on the right track
> and keep me there?
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