<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 TRANSITIONAL//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; CHARSET=UTF-8"> <META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="GtkHTML/3.8.1"> </HEAD> <BODY> On Tue, 2006-02-07 at 03:54 -0500, Ninad Bapat wrote: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE> Hi I have 2 hard drives installed and I have WinXP, Slackware,FC3 on hda1 and Ubuntu,Kanotix on hdb Recently Windows XP started giving some errors. For e.g whenever an application(Excel,firefox etc) was opened I got a popup message "Windows-Corrupt file C/WINDOWS/prefetch/xxxx.pf is corrupt and unreadable please run chkdsk" The application then would continue to run without any problems. Especially firefox always gave errors and all the files in profiles/mozilla went corrupt. I could not access my bookmarks and history. When I attempted to do chkdsk It complained that the File System is RAW and chkdsk does not support such filesystem. I tried to repair this XP installation by booting from the XP CD. Here also setup complained that C: is corrupt and cannot be repaired. So I tried to install XP again. Here when I select the option to install setup automatically selects my D drive (extended partition) and when I change it to C and select delete and proceed to install new it does not ask for any formatting option and gives the same error above. Now after all this exercise my Grub menu has been wiped off and now when I start my computer I get 2 options 1. Win XP professional 2. Win XP professional Setup. When I boot into Windows my display has become 640x480 and this cannot be changed. How do I restore Grub to atleast boot into Linux. Grub was installed when Ubuntu was installed Thanks Ninad </BLOCKQUOTE> Hope you get an answer, because I am going to install XP on a FAT partition I created when installing Ubuntu on my laptop. I was thinking maybe one can skip to the Grub install in the installation menu, but I am not sure if this would be the proper or easiest way. There is a lot of information available, I just haven't gotten around to doing anything yet. I would leave XP off except that I am thinking of getting some Computer Tech Schooling and I am sure Windows would have to be used. Good luck. Gregg </BODY> </HTML>