Hi guys, I am hoping someone could help me out. I installed edgy 6.10 on the new HP media center, which has vista home premium. I partition the drive during the edgy intall. Ever since installation, I cannot boot into vista, or recover it using the recovery discs or access the recovery drive. I get green loading bars, then it stops. It is still there and so is the recovery drive as I can see them in Ubuntu. Is there anyway to get vista back? I have read for the past 24 hours and I could not find any solution - apart from it must be that grub wiped over the new vista boot loaders, which I now must fix. Has anyone dual booted ubuntu with vista and had this problem? This is the partition table. I partitioned the main drive with vista on it and put edgy 6.10 on that. The other small drive I assume is the recovery drive. Disk /dev/sda: 320.0 GB, 320072933376 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38913 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 1 25317 203358771 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/sda2 38066 38913 6811560 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/sda3 25364 31074 45873607+ 83 Linux Partition table entries are not in disk order Disk /dev/sdf: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes ((((((((External Hard Drive))))))))) 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdf1 1 60801 488384001 7 HPFS/NTFS Here is the menu.lst of grub - does this need to be edited? ## ## End Default Options ## title Ubuntu, kernel 2.6.17-10-generic root (hd0,2) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.17-10-generic root=/dev/sda3 ro quiet splash initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.17-10-generic quiet savedefault boot title Ubuntu, kernel 2.6.17-10-generic (recovery mode) root (hd0,2) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.17-10-generic root=/dev/sda3 ro single initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.17-10-generic boot title Ubuntu, memtest86+ root (hd0,2) kernel /boot/memtest86+.bin quiet boot ### END DEBIAN AUTOMAGIC KERNELS LIST # This is a divider, added to separate the menu items below from the Debian # ones. title Other operating systems: root # This entry automatically added by the Debian installer for a non-linux OS # on /dev/sda1 title Windows Vista/Longhorn (loader) rootnoverify (hd0,0) savedefault makeactive chainloader +1 # This entry automatically added by the Debian installer for a non-linux OS # on /dev/sda2 title Windows Vista/Longhorn (loader) rootnoverify (hd0,1) savedefault makeactive chainloader +1 There is 2 vistas sitting there as I am assuming one is the recovery drive. Can anyone help find a way to be able to boot into vista (assuming it is not broken) or to use the recovery discs to wipe it clean so I can start again? If I stick the recovery discs in, I get the "windows is loading files" then the green bars that something is loading, then nothing... I have left it for 6 hours at the most. Or, is there a another way to start a fresh? Any help will be appreciated Aryxa
