Dual boot with XP installation failure

[millara]

Thanks again gold_finger.

I have not tried rokytnji's XP repair suggestion yet.

I have not made any manual changes to the Bios settings.

I don't have an XP install/restore disk

The saga of the HDDs is that my Dell PC failed. It was diagnosed as a CPU over-heating fault. It was not considered worth trying to repair due to its age. I acquired an old PC as a stop-gap measure. This is the one on which I am trying to install LL. It came with the 65GB disk (C:\) on which XP was installed. The 250GB disk from my Dell was transferred to the PC as D:\ as it contained my data but it also has a copy of XP on it. However, XP was loading from C:\.

I have since bought a new PC with Windows 10 which I hate with a passion! I therefore thought it would be a good idea to try out LinuxLite on the old PC to get some experience of it without putting my main PC at risk.

I have run the commands as you requested. Here is the result.

linux@linux:~$ sudo os-prober
/dev/sda1ell Utility PartitionellUtility:chain
/dev/sda2:Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition:Windows:chain
/dev/sdb1:Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition:Windows1:chain
/dev/sdb5:Linux Lite 2.6 (14.04):Ubuntu:linux
/dev/sdb7:Linux Lite 2.6 (14.04):Ubuntu1:linux
linux@linux:~$ sudo mkdir /mnt/one /mnt/two
linux@linux:~$ sudo mkdir /mnt/one /mnt/two
linux@linux:~$ sudo mount /dev/sdb7 /mnt/one
linux@linux:~$ sudo mount /dev/sdb5 /mnt/two
linux@linux:~$ ls /mnt/one
bin    dev  initrd.img  lost+found  opt  run  sys  var
boot  etc  lib        media      proc  sbin  tmp  vmlinuz
cdrom  home  lib64      mnt        root  srv  usr
linux@linux:~$ ls /mnt/two
bin    dev  initrd.img  lost+found  opt  run  sys  var
boot  etc  lib        media      proc  sbin  tmp  vmlinuz
cdrom  home  lib64      mnt        root  srv  usr
linux@linux:~$

I trust this is what you need. Thanks

Alistair