dual boot - xp behaves strange

[Rares Vernica]

How can I repair the part that Grub needs and Windows overwrote?

Thanks a lot,
Ray

Jeremy Thompson wrote:
> 
> 
> On 1/17/07, *James Englert* <englert.james at gmail.com 
> <mailto:englert.james at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>     Ubuntu is likely installed using the file system format ext2 or
>     ext3. Either way, I don't believe that Windows can recognize those
>     disk formats out of the box. Could that be the problem or are you
>     already savvy to that type of issue?
> 
> 
>     On 1/16/07, *Rares Vernica* < rvernica at gmail.com
>     <mailto:rvernica at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>         Hi,
> 
>         I set up a dual boot environment with Ubuntu and XP. Grub is
>         installed
>         on Ubuntu partition and the intention is to have the Ubuntu
>         partition
>         bootable. The XP partition just needs to be visible.
> 
>         It seems to work. I can boot in Ubuntu just fine. The problem is
>         when I
>         boot in XP, it changes the partitions. XP seems to hide the Ubuntu
>         partition and make the XP partition bootable.
> 
>         I wonder why this happens. I had this setting before and it
>         worked just
>         fine.
> 
>         One more think, I first installed Ubuntu and then Windows. 
> 
> 
> I think if you first installed Ubuntu then windows it over writes some 
> of the disk space Grub needs.  You might have to repair it. 
> 
>  
> 
>         Thanks a lot,
>         Ray
> 
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