There are two possibilities. One is that in partitioning you made a mistake and installed RH5 over XP in which case it is gone. The second and more likely one is that Windows is still present on a separate partition but the bootloader does not point to it. To find out if this is the case you should mount your partitions in RH and see if Windows is still there. If it is then it is a simple matter to add it to the grub bootlaoder and you will have a choice at startup.
I am not a RH guy so I can't tell you if this is par for the course for it, but most distros detect Windows and include it in the grub menu. The odd time you will find that it does not work due to the way grub handles drives differently on different systems, but it is just a matter of editing a text file as root to fix that. On mine for example grub detects my Ubuntu as (hd1,1) but by changing it to (hd0,1) it boots fine. If Windows is still there then you can repost and ask for help on editing grub or you can search for solutions which are readily available in forums. Roy Linux: Fast, friendly, flexible and ... free! Support open Source <,*)}}+< Only dead fish go with the flow. Follow LinuxCanuck on Twitter or Identi.ca for the latest news. 2009/8/16 Daniel Eggleston <[email protected]> > You are most likely using grub or lilo, both of which are heavily > documented on how to add a windows entry to the boot menu. > > On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 4:08 AM, Harshal Kirtane <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi friends, >> >> I have newly installed RedHat 5. When I rebooted the system My Windows >> version(XP) disappeared. >> I have installed Redhat 5,first time, previously I had Fedora 1 >> I have installed it by creating Physical Volumes & Logical Volumes. >> >> Do u know how can I Access both WinXP & Redhat 5 ? >> >> Reply me pls.... >> >> >> >> Thanx >> >> >> > > > -- > > Daniel > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users Group. To post a message, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit our group at http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
