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You haven't deleted the windows partition, you just didn't lable it, so the GRUB boot loader cannot see i.
To fix it this is what you have to do!
If this is the case, add the following lines to the /etc/grub.conf file:
HTH'sCode:title Windows XP
root (hd0,0)
makeactive
chainloader +1
he told us this:Quote:
Originally posted by Steve Rendell
You haven't deleted the windows partition, you just didn't lable it, so the
He didn't make free space, so linux takes it all....Quote:
As I mentioned that I have only one disk drive C: with the whole 32 GB and it seems that linux is there now.
if this hadn't be the case, then windows would have started normally after the "fdisk /mbr"
because this removes grub and sets the boot image to windows.
Dual boot to support desktops
You are making it too difficult. Sometimes all you have to do is search the web for the information.
It would be as simple as that; as long if the D-drive would be unallocated space. But what I hear fram him the D-drive has been allocated as a fat32/ntfs partition, so this one has to be deleted to give room to linux.
It might be possible that the automatic partitioning can guess that tis is you meaning; but it is better to go safe.
The partition with the windows os is most likely /dev/hda1
The other one(s) are probably for the d drive.
but you can make this up from the size. make sure you know what a extended partition is :)