I have personally been benifitted by what ritesh just said. Try that out and you might live to tell the tale.
You have not enlightened us with ne error messages that u r getting. Please do that. It will help us to help you. On 12/19/09, Ritesh Sinha <[email protected]> wrote: > If you need a quick fix to get windows xp back, you can always boot > from any xp cd, go to the recovery console and type fixboot and > fixmbr. Mind you, this will get rid of GRUB from the master boot > record. It will not affect the installed Ubuntu OS. You can later > reinstall GRUB and experiment more. In the future, you might want to > create a backup first. > > On 12/19/09, Swapneel Patnekar <[email protected]> wrote: >> On 12/19/09 6:49 PM, saurav paul wrote: >>> Now ubuntu had been sucessfully installed but when i selected windodw >>> xp from the boot option it is not opening.the 100 gb partition where >>> the windows was previously instaled is been made inactive. >>> >>> >>> >> What happens when you select the Windows entry at the GRUB boot menu ? >> Can you provide the error/messages etc ? >> >> > > -- > Sent from my mobile device > > Sent using the magic of the interwebs. > http://ritesh.posterous.com > > -- > ubuntu-in mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in > -- Sent from my mobile device Cheers Manish K -- ubuntu-in mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
