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May 11, 2011

I have been running 11.04 for what i'd say is about a month now. In the very beginning, i shredded through a few installs, because i couldn't get windows and 10.04 to play nice. With the new update, and some renewed motivation (Portal 2), i'd like to try to get both up and running again.

First, the details. I installed both OS's in a jumbled order, realized that i basically effed everything, and wiped both drives clean. I then installed windows, then Ubuntu 10.04. I think my main point of error was the way i set up the boot sectors on my final Ubuntu install, but i can't remember how i did it. all i know is that linux is sda, and windows is sdb. what is strange, however, is when i do an Fdisk of my mounted drives, i see 3 partitions under sda1, labeled sda1, sda2, and sda5

On to the previously tried methods: I've tried a simple mount of the windows drive, followed by a "sudo update-grub." all this gets me is a list consisting of 11.01, 11.01 backup, 10.04, 10.04 backup, and memtest86+. not even a hint of windows.

I've tried "sudo grub-install" on both sda and sdb, but still no dice.

That's about all i've tried. I've searched for the past week with limited results, and i'd really like to avoid reinstalling ubuntu if at all possible. Any other information, like an fdisk results list or anything like that can be provided if need be.

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