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I recently installed CentOS5.5, and needed to modify /boot/grub/menu.lst to allow me to boot from hdd instead of usb. 

title Microsoft Windows XP
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
chainloader +1

The above is what I was told to put into the /boot/grub/menu.lst to continue to be able to boot windows, but it only starts up my recovery partition (windows installer)

How do I find the correct partition to place into the file to boot windows?

Using fdisk -l I got this:

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1               1         637     5116671   12  Compaq diagnostics
/dev/sda2   *        5481       14593    73200172+   7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda3             638         650      104422+  83  Linux
/dev/sda4             651        5480    38796975    5  Extended
/dev/sda5             651        5112    35840983+  83  Linux
/dev/sda6            5113        5243     1052226   82  Linux swap / Solaris
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It seems that /dev/sda2 is your windows partition. Try:

rootnoverify (hd0,1)
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  • Lol I actually tried this right before you posted it. I swear I tried it before and it didn't work. Perhaps I forgot to save the file. Thanks, though. (Posting from Windows)
    – Rob
    Commented Nov 14, 2010 at 16:11
  • :) Cool, glad it worked.
    – icyrock.com
    Commented Nov 14, 2010 at 16:14
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you can run as root:

cfdisk -l

and see the list of partitions you have, along with their types. e.g, you should see /dev/hda0 as NTFS, according to the sample you gave, as this is the representation for (hd0, 0). search for another NTFS partition, as it is most likely the Windows partition.

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  • [root@localhost dev]# cfdisk -l bash: cfdisk: command not found
    – Rob
    Commented Nov 14, 2010 at 15:52
  • it should be fdisk and not cfdisk
    – Moshe
    Commented Nov 14, 2010 at 16:17

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