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Old 24th January 2007, 06:30 PM
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Dual boot FC5 and WinXP MediaCenter failing to boot Windows

I have a gateway laptop with Windows XP MediaCenter installed on it.
After making space on my hardrive I installed fc5 to make my machine dual boot. After installing I get two options in GRUB, fc5 and Other, where other points to my (d: ) recovery drive. So when I choose Other it starts system recovery.

I have been trying some different settings in my grub.conf from posts found on this forum but so far nothing has worked. Does anyone have a clue why I end up with my recovery and not my normal windows partition?

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Old 24th January 2007, 07:13 PM
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without seeing your partitioning layout I would guess it is a simple matter of pointing the /boot/grub/menu.lst windows titile to the partition that contains windows and not the recovery data.
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Old 24th January 2007, 08:23 PM
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yes, please paste here your menu.lst and output from fdisk -l as well...
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