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Hey everybody. I'm a first time linux user trying to setup a dual boot system between XP Pro and FC3. I originally had XP Pro installed on my main drive (C:), i have a slave on that ide chain, and then I just installed an older 20gb drive I had laying around so I could put FC3 on it (all are ATA interfaces). I installed FC3 off the iso-dvd i made and now i get "GRUB Hard Disk Error" when I try and boot. I tried the XP recovery, but i get an uber-blue screen of death that tells me windows won't load for safety reasons. I've reinstalled FC3, and thus also GRUB, twice now and I can't get it working properly. One wierd thing, the bios doesn't recognize my 3rd hard drive. Windows found it fine before i installed FC3 on it. Lastly, I tried using a bootable version of partition magic to restore the MBR, but when the software loads up it says the hard drive couldn't be found and the software closes to a dos prompt that says "R:/". I completely lost on what my next step is and I'm hoping that its not reformatting my drives. I've got a lot of info stored on my C: drive I'd like to recover. Any ideas? Thanks for any help, ryan

You sir, are a gentelman and a scholar! I went back over my setup and i found out it was a hardware/operator error. Although i thought i had the jumpers set correctly, they were not. My hdg drive was for some reason set as primary. Doh! So i changed it over to slave and it fired right up. Quote: Bear with me. Is this a Compaq, Gateway or Dell system? LOL. Its actually a system i built. P4 w/ht, 1 gb of ddr2, 340 gb of hard drive space, and a geforce 6600gt OC video card. Thanks a million for the troubleshooting help! Hopefully the rest of my linux experience will be relatively trouble free.

Sorry for any confusion... Originally posted by danleff: Quote: Is XP still the primary master drive? You did not change the drive designations or jumpers, did you? Yes, XP is on hda, hdb is just a storage drive, and hdg is the drive I installed linux on. All jumpers are set correctly and i didn't change any drive configurations. Quote: Just to clarify, currently, are you able to boot to either Windows and/or Fedora? If you can boot to Fedora, post the grub.conf file as it currently stands. I can't boot into either, although i think i could boot into linux with a bit of work. I'll work on it tonight and see if i can post the grub.conf file. Quote: Windows will not see the Fedora drive, beacause it is a linux partition. Windows refuses to see Linux partitions. So you will not be able to see the Fedora partition from within Windows as a normal partition or drive. It's the BIOS that won't recognize hdg. I can't even boot into windows. *sigh*