Chris,<br>Yes, I would have suggested something like what you did with bootcfg, followed by fixboot, then fixmbr.   <br><br>However that will make Linux unbootable.<br><br>Also, using gParted, did you move the Windows partition?  I've done that, and it can really confuses Windows. <br><br>-Bryan<br><br><br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 3/7/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Ameel, Christopher</b> <<a href="mailto:cjameel@dcmsonline.com">cjameel@dcmsonline.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;"> <div> <div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2">Bryan,</font></span></div> <div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2"></font></span> </div> <div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2"> <div><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2">No luck, same thing....</font></span></div> <div><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2"></font></span> </div> <div><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2">chainloader (hd0,0)+1</font></span></div> <div><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2"></font></span> </div> <div><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2">I'm no longer convinced that the problem is with windows at all...  I think GRUB is having issues.  That is to say, the "handoff" between GRUB and NTLDR is not taking place for some reason....</font></span></div> <div><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2"></font></span> </div> <div><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2">Any other suggestions??  Anyone else have any ideas?  Again, this is a brand new HP Pavilion Slimline PC with an install of Windows Media Center Edition.  Just one hard drive and Windows is on that hard drive first primary partition.  No mapping issues here...</font></span></div> <div><span></span> </div> <div><span> <hr> </span></div></font></span><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2"></font></span></div> <div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2">Here's what I tried...</font></span></div> <div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2"></font></span> </div> <div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2">Results of BOOTCFG:</font></span></div> <div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2"></font></span> </div> <div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2"><strong><em>I started with - C:\WINDOWS>bootcfg /scan</em></strong></font></span></div> <div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2"></font></span> </div> <div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2">Scanning all disks for Windows installations.</font></span></div> <div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2"></font></span> </div> <div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2">Please wait, since this may take a while...</font></span></div> <div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2"></font></span> </div> <div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2"><strong><em>[Here it sat for 5 mins +]</em></strong></font></span></div> <div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2"></font></span> </div> <div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2">The Windows installation scan was successful.</font></span></div> <div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2"></font></span> </div> <div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2">Note:  These results are stored statically for this session.</font></span></div> <div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2">          If the disk configuration changes during this session,</font></span></div> <div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2">          in order to get an updated scan, you must first reboot</font></span></div> <div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2">          the machine and then rescan the disks.</font></span></div> <div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2"></font></span> </div> <div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2">Total identified Windows installs: 1</font></span></div> <div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2"></font></span> </div> <div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2">[1]:  C:\WINDOWS</font></span></div> <div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2"></font></span> </div> <div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2"> <div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2"><strong><em>then I - C:\WINDOWS>bootcfg /rebuild</em></strong></font></span></div></font></span></div> <div><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2"></font><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2"></font> </div> <div><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2"><span>Add installation to boot list?  (Yes/No/All): y</span></font></div> <div><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2"><span></span></font> </div> <div><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2"><span>Enter Load Identifier: Boot Windows</span></font></div> <div><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2"><span>Enter OS Load Options:</span></font></div> <div><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2"><span></span></font> </div> <div><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2"><span> <div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2"><strong><em>then I - C:\WINDOWS>bootcfg /list</em></strong></font></span></div></span></font></div> <div><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2"><span></span></font> </div> <div><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2"><span>Total entries in boot list: 2</span></font></div> <div><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2"><span></span></font> </div> <div><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2"><span>[1] "Boot Windows"</span></font></div> <div><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2"><span>OS Load Options:</span></font></div> <div><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2"><span>OS Location: C:\WINDOWS</span></font></div> <div><strong><em><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2"></font></em></strong> </div> <div> <div><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2"><span>[2] "Windows XP Media Center Edition"</span></font></div> <div><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2"><span>OS Load Options:  /noexecute=optin /fastdetect</span></font></div> <div><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2"><span>OS Location: C:\WINDOWS</span></font></div></div> <div><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2"></font><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2"></font> </div> <div><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2"><strong><em>[So I rebooted...]</em></strong></font></span></div> <div><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2"></font></span> </div> <div><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2">Same thing....</font></span></div><span class="q"> <div><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2"></font></span> </div> <div><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2">__________________________________________</font></span></div> <div><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2">Chris Ameel</font></span></div> <div><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2"><a href="mailto:cjameel@dcmsonline.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">cjameel@dcmsonline.com</a></font></span></div> <div><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2"></font></span> </div> <div><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2"></font></span> </div> <div><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2"></font></span> </div> <div><br></div> <div dir="ltr" align="left" lang="en-us"> <hr> <font face="Tahoma" size="2"><b>From:</b> Bryan Quigley [mailto:<a href="mailto:gquigs@gmail.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">gquigs@gmail.com</a>] <br><b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, March 06, 2007 9:26 AM<br><b>To:</b> Ameel, Christopher<br><b>Cc:</b> <a href="mailto:edubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">edubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: Installed Edubuntu, now, Windows won't boot....<br></font><br></div> <div></div></span><div><span class="e" id="q_1112d4379960dfc8_2">The windows command you are looking for is: <br> <h4>BOOTCFG</h4>Use this command for boot configuration and recovery. This command has the following options: <div>bootcfg /add<br>bootcfg /rebuild<br>bootcfg /scan<br>bootcfg /list<br><br>I would try scan, rebuild or add.  Although, I have not done this in a while.  However this will most likely get rid of edubuntu or suse.  You might have to follow it up with fixboot or fixmbr.  Again, it's been a while since I've done this.  <br></div><br> <div><span class="gmail_quote">On 3/6/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Ameel, Christopher</b> <<a href="mailto:cjameel@dcmsonline.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">cjameel@dcmsonline.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;"> <div> <div><span><font face="Arial" size="2">I'm sure you've heard this too many times to count...  I have a brand new  HP Slimline Pavilion pc from Best Buy.  It has Windows Media Center Ed on it.  I decided to install Edubuntu because my children love playing all of the learning games.</font></span></div> <div><span><font face="Arial" size="2"></font></span> </div> <div><span><font face="Arial" size="2">One big hard drive nothing special, should be simple right??</font></span></div> <div><span><font face="Arial" size="2"></font></span> </div> <div><span><font face="Arial" size="2">Windows is the first partition on the only hard drive.  Pop in Edubunut 6.06 LTS and go....  Edubunut installed smoothly, did all the updates, upgrades, etc..  everything was fine.  But, reboot, no windows...    uhoh....</font></span></div> <div><span><font face="Arial" size="2"></font></span> </div> <div><span><font face="Arial" size="2">puter says:</font></span></div> <div><span><font face="Arial" size="2">chainloader (hd0,0) +1</font></span></div> <div><span><font face="Arial" size="2"></font></span> </div> <div><span><font face="Arial" size="2">Then a blinking "underscore" cursor and nothing happens.</font></span></div> <div><span><font face="Arial" size="2"></font></span> </div> <div><span><font face="Arial" size="2">I can boot to linux fine.  I can even mount and view the windows partition fine.  I can boot from a winxp pro install cd and browse the C: drive from a prompt fine.</font></span></div> <div><span><font face="Arial" size="2"></font></span> </div> <div><span><font face="Arial" size="2">I tried fixboot, nothing, fixmbr, nothing.  I even removed Edubuntu completely, repartitioned the hard drive using GParted and installed Suse 10.0 thinking maybe just maybe...  Suse boots, windows:  chainloader (hd0,0) +1</font></span></div> <div><span><font face="Arial" size="2"></font></span> </div> <div><span><font face="Arial" size="2">All the windows files are there and I've checked boot.ini like a thousand times...</font></span></div> <div><span><font face="Arial" size="2"></font></span> </div> <div><span><font face="Arial" size="2"></font></span> </div> <div><span><font face="Arial" size="2">Please help!</font></span></div> <div><span><font face="Arial" size="2"></font></span> </div> <div><span> <div align="left"> <p style="margin: auto 0in;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: navy; font-family: Arial;">_____________________________________________________________<br></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: navy; font-family: Arial;"> Christopher Ameel<br><a href="mailto:cjameel@dcmsonline.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">cjameel@dcmsonline.com</a></span></p></div></span></div></div><br>--<br>edubuntu-users mailing list<br><a href="mailto:edubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">edubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a><br>Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-users" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-users </a><br><br></blockquote></div><br></span></div></div> <br>--<br>edubuntu-users mailing list<br><a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:edubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">edubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a><br>Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-users" target="_blank"> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-users</a><br><br></blockquote></div><br>