windows xp isnt in the boot list

[drados]

ok, i finally managed to get mint working, but i broke windows 7 in the process and need to do a fresh install of it, which would be easy if i could boot windows xp, problem is that its not listed with the other options when i turn on the computer. i have tried sudo update-grub to no avail, and i also tried sudo fdisk -l which did show up the partition containing windows xp, and if i open computer up in mint i can see the partition and access it fine. just incase its important, XP is installed to C drive, whilst win7 is installed to D drive. thanks for any help

heres the terminal dump:

drados@drados-M51Va ~ $ sudo update-grub
[sudo] password for drados:
Generating grub.cfg ...
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-3.5.0-17-generic
Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-3.5.0-17-generic
Found memtest86+ image: /boot/memtest86+.bin
Found Windows 7 (loader) on /dev/sda1
done


drados@drados-M51Va ~ $ sudo fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 320.1 GB, 320072933376 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38913 cylinders, total 625142448 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x000a4543

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 63 333043514 166521726 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda2 333051965 625139711 146043873+ 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 333051967 606246911 136597472+ 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda6 606248960 610152447 1951744 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda7 610154496 625139711 7492608 83 Linux

Disk /dev/sdc: 4025 MB, 4025810432 bytes
124 heads, 62 sectors/track, 1022 cylinders, total 7862911 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x20ac7dda

This doesn't look like a partition table
Probably you selected the wrong device.

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdc1 ? 3224498923 3657370039 216435558+ 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sdc2 ? 3272020941 930513678 976730017 16 Hidden FAT16
/dev/sdc3 ? 0 0 0 6f Unknown
/dev/sdc4 50200576 974536369 462167897 0 Empty

Partition table entries are not in disk order




Specs:
Asus M51V Laptop
2.5GB DDR 3 RAM
ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3650
Intel Core 2 DUO T9600 @ 2.8Ghz
Windows XP service pack 3 32Bit
Windows 7 32Bit
Linux Mint 14 32Bit with Cinnamon

[kc1di]

Hello drados and welcome to Mint,

you may want to give boot repair a try before you do anything else.

you can find it along with instructions here:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Boot-Repair

[drados]

Hello drados and welcome to Mint,

you may want to give boot repair a try before you do anything else.

you can find it along with instructions here:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Boot-Repair

Thank you for the reply, I tried using boot-repair and to the best of my knowledge not much happened, here is the URL it gave me: http://paste2.org/p/2827430

[drados]

A bit of new information,I restored the windows boot loader to see if that would work, but it just boots to windows 7 without giving me an option for 'older windows versions' like it used to. Not sure If this is important but I thought I'd mention it anyway. Windows 7 is still totally broken and needs a Fresh install though, so I reinstalled grub and now I'm back at square 1

[kc1di]

At this point I'd do a complete reinstall - windows 7 first then Mint allow mint to place grub in the MBR you can add windows xp if you still want it later.
here's a page with some good tips on dual booting it's written for mint 13 but should work just as well for 14. http://www.linuxbsdos.com/2012/06/06/ho ... windows-7/
you may also want to look at this page : https://help.ubuntu.com/community/DualBoot

good luck