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Hi guys, hope i posted in the right area of this forum? I have win xp mce installed but a while ago i (with the help of a friend who knows about such things) was messing around with ubuntu. During this messing around it apears some partitions were created and grub 1.5 installed i thnk! I forgot about this and in disk manager i deleted oe of these partitions to create more space for my data. I reformatted this new space fat32 and named it drive M. All was fine when running last night but after restartign this morning i get the message loading grub 1.5 and cannot load grub error 17 which i believe means cannot mount drive. Looking at this forums previous post i tried to boot from windows cd and then repair console but i get the message that this cannot be done as there are no hard drives installed?! I get this same message when trying the reinstall windows function. Any advice or input would be great, i really do not know enough to be doing this so I'm hoping you guys can help me out of a tight spot! thanks

Hi guys, hope i posted in the right area of this forum? I have win xp mce installed but a while ago i (with the help of a friend who knows about such things) was messing around with ubuntu. During this messing around it apears some partitions were created and grub 1.5 installed i thnk! I forgot about this and in disk manager i deleted oe of these partitions to create more space for my data. I reformatted this new space fat32 and named it drive M. All was fine when running last night but after restartign this morning i get the message loading grub 1.5 and cannot load grub error 17 which i believe means cannot mount drive. Looking at this forums previous post i tried to boot from windows cd and then repair console but i get the message that this cannot be done as there are no hard drives installed?! I get this same message when trying the reinstall windows function. Any advice or input would be great, i really do not know enough to be doing this so I'm hoping you guys can help me out of a tight spot! thanks

Ive been trying to do that. Ive been running ubuntu 7.10 from the disk but it freezes just after giving me the wallpaper on screen, in safe graphics mode it isnt supported by my ggrqphics card. Ive had this prob before with linux. so I cant get at it through win restore as my sata hard drives arent recognised I cant get at it thr9ugh linux because linux freezes before it boots Is there another way? thanks

Thanks for the reply, Im using xp mce 2005 sp2 At the moment I have 2 hard drives, both sata, one for data only the primary drive has a 40gb partition for windows and 260gb which i recently formatted fat32. Im a little confused as to where the grub is located. Do you think that by removing the 260gb partition and making my windows drive cover the whole hd that this will remove linux and the grub. The only prob I can see there is that that may involve reformatting the drive and reinstalling windows. not too much of a big deal but at the moment windows recovery does not recognise any drives as they are sata cheers!