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Windows Media Center Edition won't load from GRUB

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http://www.linuxquestions.org – Hello, I have recently put Ubuntu on a friend's computer. I can access the windows partition and everything through Ubuntu. When I go to restart, his Windows XP Media Center Edition is in the boot loader's list but when I go to boot into it all I get is a black screen with a flash _ at the top left. It then just continues to sit there. I was wondering if maybe GRUB was looking in the wrong spot for the OS. Before I installed Linux he was having problems with Windows XP, which is one reason why I switched him to Ubuntu. For some reason his computer was booting his HP Recovery partition instead of his Windows partition on start up. I was hoping by putting Ubuntu on and using GRUB as a boot loader I would be able to load Windows and Ubuntu side by side as it is on my machine. Windows still doesn't work though :( I hope people can help me out. I know this isn't really an Ubuntu question but I was unsure where to post boot loader questions. God Bless, Dustin † Also a possibility a friend suggested is that the boot.ini for windows isn't pointing to the right place to boot, or something along those lines. (HowTos)

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