Grub help needed

[Joel Oliver]

Bruce Marshall wrote:
> On Thursday 18 December 2008, Ralph DeWitt wrote:
>   
>> # This entry automatically added by the Debian installer for a non-linux OS
>> # on /dev/sda1
>> title           Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition
>> root            (hd0,0)
>> savedefault
>> makeactive
>> chainloader     +1
>>     
>
> Can you verify that Windows is on the first partition of the first HD?
>
>   
Also Windows needs to be a basic partition (Whether primary or 
extended)... If you messed around in the Control Panel/Adminitrator 
tools/Disk Management and converted the Windows partition to "Dynamic 
Partition" this will cause problems as well.