Grub messed up on me too. Both my partitions were deleted and I couldn't boot. The data was still there, but it was hard to get at.
What I did was this: burned a linux boot disk that could load NTFS file systems, booted to it, used Fdisk to force an NTFS partition starting at the begining of the drive (where my XP partition was), made a linux partition at the end of the disk (because that's where I put my linux partition with Partition Magic), and then copied all my crucial NTFS data I needed from my XP partition to the linux partition, then booted back up to my Red Hat 8.0 disk 1, and it told me there was no linux partition, and droped me out to the command prompt. I set up the networking and then used ftp to transfer from the linux partition to my roommate's computer. (We had to set up an FTP server, but there's some nice free ones out there that will do nicely.) Then I reformatted the whole thing and installed XP. Questions? Let me know at [EMAIL PROTECTED] BTW, the reason I had to boot to the Red Hat 8.0 disk 1 was because I couldn't find any bootable ISO images that had network support. So the answer is this: your data is still there, but it's gonna be a small nightmare getting it back. Good luck. Karl David Mortensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] ________________________________________________________________ Sign Up for Juno Platinum Internet Access Today Only $9.95 per month! Visit www.juno.com _______________________________________________ newbies mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://phantom.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/newbies
