Ok, this is actually a solution not a problem but couldn't find anything on how to solve it on this forum back when it was a problem. A friend installed linux and had this problem and the following is how we managed to solve it (really easy but took a few hours to figure out what was wrong, and hence what to do). Note, this solution I imagine would work on any linux distro, not just kubuntu.
Basically, after linux install trying to boot windows would give an error something like the following:
xmnt2002.exe cannot find file
autochk.exe cannot find file
after much time we figured out the problem had been caused by Symantic Partition Magic, which he used it to partition the drive and had somehow caused the windows partition to be set as hidden (apparently not a rare problem, but all the other solutions we found involved using an MSDOS boot disk to hack the windows registry, not something we wanted to try). Anyway to solve this simply boot into kubuntu, install qtparted (or gparted if you were a gnome user) from adept, then run it, right-click on the windows partition and deselect 'hide', commit changes, and thats it! How simple. Beats messing with the registry any day.
Hope this post saves someone else the hours of our lives we will never get back...
Basically, after linux install trying to boot windows would give an error something like the following:
xmnt2002.exe cannot find file
autochk.exe cannot find file
after much time we figured out the problem had been caused by Symantic Partition Magic, which he used it to partition the drive and had somehow caused the windows partition to be set as hidden (apparently not a rare problem, but all the other solutions we found involved using an MSDOS boot disk to hack the windows registry, not something we wanted to try). Anyway to solve this simply boot into kubuntu, install qtparted (or gparted if you were a gnome user) from adept, then run it, right-click on the windows partition and deselect 'hide', commit changes, and thats it! How simple. Beats messing with the registry any day.
Hope this post saves someone else the hours of our lives we will never get back...
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