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I did the exact steps twice and I get the same error (Error: Failed to add the selected boot entry to the boot list). The only thing I changed is that when it asks me for the load identifier I put in "Microsoft Windows XP Media Center Edition" instead of 'Microsoft Windows XP Home edition"

Originally Posted By: danleff Question #1: Are all your hard drives sata drives? If not, then the boot order is dependent on what the bios is set for sata/ide... vs. IDE/sata... yes, they're all SATA drives #2: Do you get the Grub boot menu with no way to boot any OS, or just the word Grub on the top of the screen with no options? I get the Grub boot menu that lets me select Ubuntu or XP Media Center, and they both work fine when all drives are connected. If I disconnect the drive with Ubuntu, I get a GRUB menu with some kind of error. #3: You told Ubuntu to install the grub bootloader on the MBR of the boot drive during the installation? I'm pretty sure it didn't ask me anything about GRUB when I installed Ubuntu - I was trying pretty hard to make sure it wouldn't touch the original C: drive with XP on it. #4: You told ubuntu to just install on the new drive? Yes, I selected the new hard drive when I installed it. If Ubuntu was indeed installed on the second drive and the bootloader on the MBR of the original drive, then you can´t just remove the Ubuntu drive, as the reference files for Grub are on the drive that you removed. Grub then is unable to find these files that it needs to boot either OS. I guess I'm looking for a way to get back to my original configuration before I installed the new drive and Ubuntu. I.e. I want (if possible) to remove the new drive and have the system boot into XP like before. I don't care too much if it's GRUB or the windows bootloader really as long as my computer runs without the new drive (it was supposed to be temporary).

I know this topic has been posted already, but I still am not able to get windows XP working properly. Here's what I did - 1. Windows XP Media Center was installed on C: 2. 2nd hard drive was installed on S: Everything was working great. Then yesterday I bought another hard drive (SATA) and installed Ubuntu. Since it is a separate hard drive I thought it wouldn't mess up anything on C:, but now the GRUB interface shows up, even if I disconnect the new hard drive with Ubuntu. I tried doing this 1. Removed the new hard drive with Ubuntu 2. Put in XP Media Center CD and selected Recovery 3. C:\WINDOWS CD .. FIXBOOT C: FIXMBR BOOTCFG /rebuild load identifier: Microsoft XP Media Center edition load options: /fastdetect Error: Error: Failed to add the selected boot entry to the boot list Please help!