When Windows XP is installed after Debain is installled the MBR needs to be reset so when the computer is booted it boots into GRUB again.

• Boot with the Super GRUB2 disk
• Run “Detect any GRUB2 config file”
• Boot the found config file
• Login into Linux
• Open a terminal and login as root
• Remove the CD
• Run update-grub
• Run grub-install /dev/sda ( Replace sda with the drive linux is on )
  • Do not install on a partition like /dev/sda1 ! That will result in the first issue below
• Run update-grub
• Reboot
• Now the GRUB menu should appear with the choice for Linux or Windows XP

grub-install: warning: File system `ext2' doesn't support embedding

Check if grub-install is ran on a partition (e.g. /dev/sda1) or on the hard disk itself (e.g. /dev/sda). It should be on /dev/sda

Some Ideas to solve this

• Run update-grub
• Run grub-install
• Run chackdisk from the Windows RepairCD. You can also use Mini XP. Hiren's Boot CD has it
• Boot Windows XP from Hiren's Boot CD (third menu page)
• Use the Boot-Repair Disk
• Compare the files in the windows XP root directory the the files from an other PC
• Check the UUID of the partition with the one shown by blkid. Boot from Liux to run blkid

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