Stupid Dual Boot Slightly OT question

[Mike McGinn]

On Monday 14 June 2010 09:51:55 J wrote:
> Sigh... I knew sooner or later it would happen...
> 
> So I gave my parents an Ubuntu 10.04 disk and said, "Here, try it out.
>  You don't have to install, just click the Try Ubuntu button and you
> can do everything you'd normally do without installing and risking
> your current windows installation.  Then if you want to install, let
> me know and I'll take care of that for you when I come visit next."
> 
> And so instead, my mom, who can't even pronounce Linux goes and
> installs it on her own, getting a running Ubuntu system, gets herself
> set up with facebook and twitter and firefox and manages to even
> figure out how to get herself connected to their wireless router
> without any assistance.  My mom...
> 
> But, of course, now tragedy strikes and we wander slightly OT.  She
> has a dual boot setup with Win7 and Ubuntu.  Grub2 shows entries for
> both OSs and when she hits Ubuntu entries 10.04 loads like a champ.
> However, when she tries to load Windows, she gets a message on screen
> saying things are loading but then nothing and right back to Grub.
> (I'm still not sure if it's going straight back to grub or if it's
> rebooting itself).
> 
> Normally, if I get a windows bootloader, I can get her to safe mode
> and hope that will get us in to fix this... but since the computer
> (which is sitting about 3 hours away from me right now) is going
> through grub, I'm not sure exactly HOW to get into safemode after
> hitting the Windows entry.
> 
> Any suggestions?
> 
> On the more general topic, I'm wondering if she didn't have just a ton
> of crap on there, and something important got overwritten during the
> disk resize...
> 
> Cheers,
> Jeff
> 
I did that when I first tried Linux a few years ago. I did not defrag my XP 
partition so it was borked. It sounds like Mom over wrote part of Windows when 
she installed Ubuntu. Otherwise it sounds like she is doing fine. When you 
visit you will have to back up Ubu, reinstall Windows and probably reinstall 
Ubuntu.


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