Can't Access Win XP from GRUB

shinobi

I've recently installed UBUNTU 7.10 on a different HDD than windows is installed on.
UBUNTU works fine, But the problem is when you boot up there was no option to boot into windows. I searched the internet & found some help on editing the /boot/grub/menu.lst file. The first 3 were already there & the last entry is the one which I made. When I select the Windows option it says.."Entering Stage 2"
Shortly followed by a "read error".
Any help would be Greatly appreciated.

title Ubuntu 7.10, kernel 2.6.22-14-generic
root (hd2,1)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.22-14-generic root=UUID=741fc2d5-8f34-4fe0-b1a0-3274e6fc74d8 ro quiet splash
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.22-14-generic
quiet

title Ubuntu 7.10, kernel 2.6.22-14-generic (recovery mode)
root (hd2,1)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.22-14-generic root=UUID=741fc2d5-8f34-4fe0-b1a0-3274e6fc74d8 ro single
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.22-14-generic

title Ubuntu 7.10, memtest86+
root (hd2,1)
kernel /boot/memtest86+.bin
quiet

title Windows XP
root (hd0,0)
makeactive
chainloader +1
quiet

bman

Are you sure windows is on hd0? Try from the command line

mount hda1 /mnt
ls /mnt

Does it show up your Windows file structure? Post up your output.

shinobi

Tried that

mount hda1 /mnt
mount: special device hda1 does not exist

ls /mnt
c

Here is a screen shot from G parted, Windows is on the 28GB partition.

bman

Okay, first try this:

ls /mnt/c

Does this show your windows filesystem structure?

Then try:

mount -t ntfs /dev/sda1 /mnt
ls /mnt

shinobi

Not getting anything much.
Do you think windows has been corrupted?

usr@usr-desktop:~$ sudo mount -t ntfs /dev/sda1 /mnt
NTFS signature is missing.
Failed to mount '/dev/sda1': Invalid argument
The device '/dev/sda1' doesn't have a valid NTFS.
Maybe you selected the wrong device? Or the whole disk instead of a
partition (e.g. /dev/hda, not /dev/hda1)? Or the other way around?
usr@usr-desktop:~$

bman

shinobi wrote: »

Not getting anything much.
Do you think windows has been corrupted?

I doubt it. Although I don't like the look of that exclamation mark in your gparted screenshot. What do you get for ls /mnt/c at the moment? Also give us a look at the output of fdisk -l.

I'm not at my Linux machine at the moment so I can't mess about with a few commands to see what you should be getting. I'll have another look when I get home but in the mean time someone else here will probably figure it out for you.

shinobi

Nothing happens when I enter the commands in terminal.

usr@usr-desktop:~$ fdisk -l
usr@usr-desktop:~$ ls /mnt/c
usr@usr-desktop:~$

Thanks again for the help.

bman

Oops! This is the problem with me trying to remember commands without my machine in front of me! It should have been "fdisk -l /dev/sda". Give that a shot.

shinobi

Didn't get too much...

usr@usr-desktop:~$ fdisk -l /dev/sda1
Cannot open /dev/sda1

bman

Nope, try fdisk -l /dev/sda, not fdisk -l /dev/sda1

shinobi

Same message:

usr@usr-desktop:~$ fdisk -l /dev/sda
Cannot open /dev/sda

bman

Make sure you are the root user when running this command.