Re: Where has my Windows partition gone?

[Jimmy Johnson <field.engineer@gmail.com>]

John O Laoi wrote:
> > > Try: update-grub
> > as root!
>
> Thank you.
> Unfortunately, this did not do the trick:
>
> # update-grub
> Generating grub.cfg ...
> Found background image: moreblue-orbit-grub.png
> Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-5-686
> Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-5-686
> Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-3-686
> Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-3-686
> Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-trunk-686
> Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-trunk-686
> Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.30-2-686
> Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-2.6.30-2-686
> Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.30-1-686
> Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-2.6.30-1-686
> Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.26-2-686
> Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-2.6.26-2-686
> done
>
> Any other ideas


If you can find your active /boot/grub/menu.lst or /boot/grub/grub.cfg 
then add the below 3 lines to it, making sure you still have a blank 
line at the bottom before you save it.

title Microsoft Windows at sda2
rootnoverify (hd0,1)
chainloader +1
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Jimmy Johnson

SimplyMEPIS Alpha-1 at sda9
Registered Linux User #380263