I ended up installing Mint on an extended partition because I didn't see any other way of doing it at the time so I am not sure If this is part of the problem. I did manage to partition it so that I have root, home and swap, but I eventually would like to get rid of WXP and use this as a Linux only box
Here is the results from the Boot Info Script for the boot drive. Any help/suggestions on how to get WXP added to the grub menu is appreciated.
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Boot Info Script 0.61 [1 April 2012]
============================= Boot Info Summary: ===============================
=> Grub2 (v1.99) is installed in the MBR of /dev/sda and looks at sector 1 of
the same hard drive for core.img. core.img is at this location and looks
for (,msdos6)/boot/grub on this drive.
=> Windows is installed in the MBR of /dev/sdb.
=> Windows is installed in the MBR of /dev/sdc.
=> Windows is installed in the MBR of /dev/sdd.
sda1: __________________________________________________________________________
File system: ntfs
Boot sector type: Windows XP: NTFS
Boot sector info: No errors found in the Boot Parameter Block.
Operating System: Windows XP
Boot files: /boot.ini /ntldr /NTDETECT.COM
sda2: __________________________________________________________________________
File system: Extended Partition
Boot sector type: -
Boot sector info:
sda5: __________________________________________________________________________
File system: ntfs
Boot sector type: Windows XP: NTFS
Boot sector info: According to the info in the boot sector, sda5 starts
at sector 63.
Operating System:
Boot files:
sda6: __________________________________________________________________________
File system: ext4
Boot sector type: -
Boot sector info:
Mounting failed: mount: /dev/sda6 already mounted or sda6 busy
sda7: __________________________________________________________________________
File system: ext4
Boot sector type: -
Boot sector info:
Operating System:
Boot files:
sda8: __________________________________________________________________________
File system: swap
Boot sector type: -
Boot sector info:
============================ Drive/Partition Info: =============================
Drive: sda _____________________________________________________________________
Disk /dev/sda: 150.0 GB, 150039945216 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 18241 cylinders, total 293046768 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Partition Boot Start Sector End Sector # of Sectors Id System
/dev/sda1 * 63 41,945,714 41,945,652 7 NTFS / exFAT / HPFS
/dev/sda2 41,945,715 293,025,599 251,079,885 f W95 Extended (LBA)
/dev/sda5 41,945,778 50,331,644 8,385,867 7 NTFS / exFAT / HPFS
/dev/sda6 50,331,708 113,242,184 62,910,477 83 Linux
/dev/sda7 113,242,248 285,201,944 171,959,697 83 Linux
/dev/sda8 285,202,008 293,025,599 7,823,592 82 Linux swap / Solaris
================================ Mount points: =================================
Device Mount_Point Type Options
/dev/disk/by-uuid/a986207a-b093-4716-81cb-1b7bf83740a2 / ext4 (rw,relatime,errors=remount-ro,user_xattr,barrier=1,data=ordered)
/dev/sda5 /media/Temp fuseblk (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,user_id=0,group_id=0,default_permissions,allow_other,blksize=4096)
/dev/sda7 /home ext4 (rw,relatime,errors=remount-ro,user_xattr,barrier=1,data=ordered)
================================ sda1/boot.ini: ================================
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[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect
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=============================== StdErr Messages: ===============================
xz: (stdin): Compressed data is corrupt