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Question #78158 on grub in ubuntu changed:
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub/+question/78158

    Status: Answered => Solved

Megawatts confirmed that the question is solved:
Thanks to both of you for your assistance.  Those steps worked.  The
only step I needed to add was the following:

Quote from www.troublefixers.com ... On grub prompt type “find
/boot/grub/stage1” without quotes and press enter key. This will show a
output like this one “(hd1,4)” or something like that, note down the
output you see on a piece of paper, its very important that u note it
correctly else it will mess up the next steps.

Initially I thought my ubuntu ext3 partition was the second partition on
my drive (therefore hd0,1).  I thought that because it was the 2nd
partition that was displayed in both the XP disk manager and the Ubuntu
partition editor.  I tried (h0,1) with the steps you provided a number
of times with no luck.  Then I used the FIND command and discovered that
my ext2 partition for ubuntu was actually (hd0,4).  I never would have
guessed that based on my looks on multiple partition editors.

Once I tried the same steps with (hd0,4) it worked the first time.

Thanks again for all your help.  Now I can boot and get the dual boot
screen.  Then choose XP and get the dual boot windows screen and select
XP or windows 7.  It's great.  Thanks much

Steve

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