installed ubuntu, now firefox does not work in windows

[Mumia W.]

Richard Bourne wrote:
> Actually it was much worse, the installation overwrote part of my
> windows system and crashed it.  Ubuntu works fine now but my windows
> install is deader than dead.
> I tried repeatedly to get a new partition but it failed every time and
> just told me to start over.
> 

That's not supposed to happen, and it will only happen if you have 
overlapping partitions. How did you get overlapping partitions? What 
partition manager did you use?