Help needing Vista to boot

[aryxa]

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

Edited July 3, 2007 by aryxa

[fizban2]

http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=95537

[aryxa]

Hi,

I already tried pasting

# Boot Vista by finding and loading bootmgrv

title Microsoft Windows Vista

find --set-root /bootmgrv

chainloader /bootmgr

in the menu.lst and I got an error. before I posted this thread. I get really confused with all the code talk in that thread and I barely know which is which drive. or what the code is to put in the menu.lst.

Please, can someone please look my grub and my disks? I am so lost in here.

TIA

Aryxa

Edited July 3, 2007 by aryxa

[spacesurfer]

There's an error in your code:

It should be either:

# Boot Vista by finding and loading bootmgrv
title Microsoft Windows Vista
find --set-root /bootmgrv
chainloader /bootmgrv

or

# Boot Vista by finding and loading bootmgrv
title Microsoft Windows Vista
find --set-root /bootmgr
chainloader /bootmgr

You are either missing a v in line two or you have an extra v in line 1. Whether you need the v or not depends on whether you renamed bootmgr to bootmgrv. If you didn't rename it, then use bootmgr in both lines.

The only time you need to rename bootmgr to bootmgrv is when you are renaming grldr to bootmgr. If you didn't do that, then you don't have to.

Edited July 4, 2007 by spacesurfer