hi

my brother bought a hp a1540n (amd athlon 64 X2 4200+, 2 gig ram, 250 hd...)

Windows XP media center 2005 is installed

my brother intalled suse linux 10.1

suse work fine.....

when he choose windows XP in the grub menu, he get a disk read error occured chainloader (hd0,0)+0

any idea?

thanks

Details---we need DETAILS!!

I assume that the SUSE install put grub in the mbr and then attempted to set the configuration file to boot Windows and Linux. (Or was GRUB setup more by hand??)

What we need--minimum:
The drive and partition info (From Linux, as root, type "fdisk -l")
The GRUB configuration file. It is in /boot/grub, and is named either "grub.conf" or "menu.lst".

This sentence does not make sense: What was the actual error message?

i don't have right now the computer

the actual error message is:

Disk read error occured:
chain loader (hd0,0)+1
ctrl-alt del to reboot

Does it say anything about BOOTMGR being compressed?
If it does, boot into a knoppix 5.0.1 CD, copy BOOTMGR from C:\ to the Desktop, rename the BOOTMGR file on C:\ to .bak and move the copy back over.
That did the trick for me.
This happens when you use the built-in compression utility to compress your C:\ drive. Luckily, I was able to uncompress the file through Knoppix and boot into my Vista install and fix my XP partition.
It's a good thing you can't, and shouldn't need, to compress files like that in Linux. You really don't need to, anyway. Linux programs tend to be incredibly small...


So it's either that or you have some damaged system files. Seeing as it's an hp, rename WINDOWS on the drive (from Knoppix) to WINDOWS_OLD and copy the good one from your HP_RECOVERY partition. After that, just rename all of the system files in C:\ to .bak and copy the good ones from your recovery partition.
This will take up about half a gig of space, but it's worth getting Windows back (Windows itself is crappy, but not all Windows apps run in WINE).
I use SUSE and I run Kubuntu, XP, and Vista, and GRUB hasn't caused problems with any of them.