[xubuntu-users] dual boot problem

[Piskie]

On 11/05/12 22:58, Joshua O'Leary wrote:
> On 11/05/12 21:14, Norman Silverstone wrote:
>> I am having problems in setting up a new PC and would welcome help,
>> please. The machine has 2 HDDs one for OS and applications and the other
>> for data. Windows XP Pro was installed and then followed, so I thought,
>> by Xubuntu 12.04. There was a problems in that Grub was not functioning
>> and all my attempts to rectify this failed. A closer look at things
>> showed that XP Pro was installed on 1 HDD and, for some unknown reason,
>> Xubuntu had installed on the other HDD.
>>
>> So that I can try to install Xubuntu on the same HDD as XP Pro I need to
>> remove Xubuntu from its present location. How do I do this, please.
>>
>> Norman
>>
>>
> Are you definitely sure that there are two physical HDDs or just two 
> partitions on the same disk? If they are separate, grub has to be 
> installed on whichever one has been selected in the BIOS to boot 
> properly. If they are just two partitions, then Xubuntu and XP pro 
> cannot be installed into the same partition, you need to install 
> Xubuntu to a second partition, and make sure that in the install 
> process the location of grub is set to the drive used for booting 
> (probably /dev/sda). If you are still unsure, please could you post 
> some screenshots so that I can take a look.
>
> Joshua
>
If a screenshot's not showing much then

sudo fdisk -l

might show more, or if push comes to shove then attaching the you get 
from running bootscript will likely give us noire info than we could 
shake as stick at

Piskie

http://bootinfoscript.sourceforge.net/