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The problem there was seen when replacing the XP mbr entries with Grub instead of seeing Grub installed onto the external drive where you would use the F1 or other option to bring up the list of drives and select the external when wanting to boot into Linux.
Once you have the XP mbr repaired at the recovery console you would likely need to reinstall ubuntu to make things easier by selecting the external drive when the installer asks where you want Grub installed. Obviously you had selected the XP internal instead.
The way the ubuntu installer works is first selecting the partition to be the root holding the Linux system files, any small partition desgnated for a swap, and making sure the edit option sees the root made the "/" mount not "/boot" but simply the mount point with the external L or "X"(unspecified drive letter) drive itself is selected not a partition on the drive but the drive itself for seeing grub installed.
When going to select a drive in the boot device menu you simply choose that to see ubuntu load with the option to boot into XP. Since you repaired the XP mbr the internal drive is now a stand alone by itself. If ubuntu was installed onto a second partition Grub would then be made the default loader for both OSs with ubuntu being the default.
Once you have the XP mbr repaired at the recovery console you would likely need to reinstall ubuntu to make things easier by selecting the external drive when the installer asks where you want Grub installed. Obviously you had selected the XP internal instead.
The way the ubuntu installer works is first selecting the partition to be the root holding the Linux system files, any small partition desgnated for a swap, and making sure the edit option sees the root made the "/" mount not "/boot" but simply the mount point with the external L or "X"(unspecified drive letter) drive itself is selected not a partition on the drive but the drive itself for seeing grub installed.
When going to select a drive in the boot device menu you simply choose that to see ubuntu load with the option to boot into XP. Since you repaired the XP mbr the internal drive is now a stand alone by itself. If ubuntu was installed onto a second partition Grub would then be made the default loader for both OSs with ubuntu being the default.