![]() In Step 5: Download the testdisk-6.10.2 package on a different computer and use a flash drive to transfer it to your Ubuntu home folder. In Step 2: Download on a different computer and use a flash drive to transfer it to your Ubuntu home folder. If you do not have a working internet connection in Ubuntu ( You can delete "" at any time, but I would wait until you successfully booted into XP) This will write a modified boot sector to the Windows partition. Use the "right arrow" key and "enter" to select "write". Use the "right arrow" key and "enter" to select "Rebuild BS" Use the down arrrow to select the "XP" partition and then "enter" to select "boot" Use the "down arrow" and "enter" to select "advanced" Sudo testdisk /dev/sda(Replace /dev/sda by device name of the XP partition without the number) Step 1) Mount your windows partition in Linux II) Step 5) seems to be unnecessary in some cases. bootcfg did not detect XP, probably since it was on a logical partition. I) In theory one should be able to replace Step 3) by "bootcfg /rebuild" from the Windows Recovery Console. ![]() Step 5) Use testdisk to rebuild the boot sector. ![]() Step 4) Do NOT use ``makeactive'' in menu.lst. Windows starts counting at 1 and counts partitions in the order of the partition table (so far that's the same way linux counts) BUT skips over extended partitions and empty partitions. The number in ``partition(1)'' needs to be changed to the correct number for your XP partition. Extract the three files boot.ini, NTLDR and NTDETECT.COM to (the root of) the XP partition. Step 1) Boot into Ubuntu and mount the XP partition. His post is not only relevant if XP is on a logical partition, it also applies whenever the boot files for XP are missing. This is a follow up on Herman's post on how to boot XP from a logical partion.
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