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[Tom <question77500@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Question #77500 on grub in ubuntu changed:
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub/+question/77500

    Status: Open => Answered

Tom proposed the following answer:
Ok, that's a Windows problem then lol, Sorry i'm unlikely to be able to help there.  For Ubuntu tho it's worth working all the way through this guide
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Medibuntu
I go with almost entirely non-free components, i guess one day someone might ask me to pay licence fees for some codecs but i might go completely OpenSource and really free myself before then ;)

You might find this handy for dipping into occasionally
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SwitchingToUbuntu/FromWindows

Just to make sure about Windows please type this into a terminal console

cd /boot/grub
ls
sudo cp menu.lst menu.220709
ls
gedit menu.lst

note the "ls" is lower-case "LS" and gives a LiSt of what's in the
folder.  "dir" also works but it's not colour-coded.  The "cp" command
doesn't normally needed to be sudoed but in this instance the grub
folder is a system folder so it's protected from accidental dumb
mistakes.  Sudo will ask for your normal user password, not your
SuperUser/Root one.  Anyway, after all that i was only interested in
what gedit shows menu.lst as having in the Windows section at the very
end of that file.

Also i was wondering how far through the bootup Windows gets before it
falls over.  Does it get to the blue bar going across the screen?

Also i was wondering if you have a Windows Cd that we might be able to
use to repair your Windows with?

Umm, and have you checked that all your data appears to be ok?
Thanks, good luck and regards from
Tom :)

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