<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 2:38 PM, Steve Flynn <<a href="mailto:anothermindbomb@gmail.com">anothermindbomb@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c">On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 1:16 PM, Donny George <<a href="mailto:donny008@gmail.com">donny008@gmail.com</a>> wrote: > Its been some time since i have been using Ubuntu. But today when i tried > for a dual booting system with Vista which was installed first and then > Xubuntu. After installing xubuntu i cant see vista anymore though the Grub > at startup shows just the Ubuntu options. (the ntfs partitions were detected > during the scanning of the disks) > > Could someone tell me what went wrong, is there a way to put grub so that i > regain my vista </div></div>When you installed Ubuntu, it should have identified the other partitions on your machine and added entries for those partitions in to your grub menu. If it didn't then that would indicate that at the time of installation it could not read those other partitions. Are those other partition in a RAID configuration per chance? Your first step should be to post your grub menu.lst file so we can see what you have and have not got in there. At the same time, I would fire up a partition editor (gparted for example) and take note of what disks and partitions you actaully have on this machine. When you're posting the grub menu.lst file, tell us what gparted tells you - what partitions it found, on what drives and what format/state they are in. -- Steve When one person suffers from a delusion it is insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion it is called religion. 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0 -- ubuntu-users mailing list <a href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users</a> </blockquote></div> hello steve during the installation of the xubuntu the partioner had detected my ntfs files. and even the gparted does detect my ntfs partitions though its shows an red exclamation mark on the primary vista partition. the grub/menu.lst has only options for ubuntu and ubuntu recovery mode and ubunu memtest86 the partition is as follows sda1 ntfs 35 gb sda2 ntfs 15 gb sda5 swap 1 gb sda6 exts 18 gb i happened to come across a post which modifies the grub/menu.lst to get the grub with vista option if so in this case how could in wat way cud i edit thanks for ur help don -- Donny George