Recovering Windows Vista Partition after Ubuntu Natty N. install

Question

I recently installed Ubuntu on my DELL's D Drive (Secondary Partition) and I lost the windows vista boot which was on my C Drive. Now when I boot my system directly loads Ubuntu, which seemed to me that GRUB was not installed. So I installed GRUB2

sudo apt-get install grub-pc

I checked the version to get:

$ grub-install -v
grub-install (GRUB) 1.99~rc1-13ubuntu3

Now how do I configure grub to list both Ubuntu (sda5) and windows vista (sda3)? Or that is not possible :(

The Catch:

My CD drive is broken so I cant use any Live CD

PS: I have a mem-stick with Ubuntu installed

Answer 1

Try running this to see if Grub will add Windows to its menu:

update-grub

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Make a new file, /etc/grub.d/11_windows, with this content:

#!/bin/sh -e
echo "found Windows Vista" >&2
cat << EOF
menuentry "Windows Vista" {
    set root=(hd0,3)
    chainloader +1
}
EOF

Then run

update-grub

again.

Answer 2

If you have a Windows installation CD, follow these steps:

1. Insert the Windows installation disk (may be a USB drive).
2. Restart the computer (making sure that the BIOS is configured to boot from that).
3. Once started and loaded, choose the "Repair your computer" option.
4. From the next set of options, select "Startup Repair". Once complete the computer will restart and the problem should be solved.