thank you for your ans.
you are correct i have xp and i couldn't boot because of a xp prob. so i restored with ghost and lost grub. when restore finished. i no longer had grub. up to now (3 weeks and counting) i cannot boot to fedora. i have 2 disks. disk1 is xp. disk2 is fedora.
i just want to able to get back my linux, getting use to it, and collected some good info.
unfortunately, i am still learning the syntaxes that go with it. i learn as i go. and with people like yourself and many others i really do appreciate the help.
p.s. linux is more stable then win any win.
again thanks