<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 3:04 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 class="Ih2E3d">On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 1:46 PM, Donny George <<a href="mailto:donny008@gmail.com">donny008@gmail.com</a>> wrote: > 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. </div>I cannot say what the red "!" means (as I'm not around an Ubuntu machine or have access to gparted man pages) but I assume it's something along the lines of overlapping partitions or something similar which needs to be sorted out at some stage. Someone else will have to give you advice on this as I'd be working blind. <div class="Ih2E3d"> > 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 </div>sda1 is your primary Vista partition? Could you clarify please. > sda2 ntfs 15 gb sda2 is a data partition perhaps? Cold you also clarify this. <div class="Ih2E3d"> > 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 </div>All you should need to do is insert a stanza for your Vista partition - to do this we need to know which of the two ntfs partitions listed above (sda1, sda2) is your actual Vista partition. Clarify that and we should be able to give you a cut 'n' paste entry for your menu.lst file, you can then run an grub update and pot the output from the update to ensure it looks ok... and you're good to go. > thanks for ur help No worries - jsut tell us which partition is Vista and we'll knock up a Windows stanza for you. -- <div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c">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> </div></div></blockquote></div> hello the primary vista partition is sda1 ntfs 35 gb cud u guide me ? -- Donny George