Right now I am running with two hard drives, one is being used for linux. I want to install Windows XP on the other, how can I do this without overwriting the bootloader and removing access to Linux, also I want to share files between windows and linux what's a good way to do that?

The following is my grub.conf:

# grub.conf generated by anaconda
#
# Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file
# NOTICE: You have a /boot partition. This means that
# all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg.
# root (hd0,4)
# kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/hde11
# initrd /initrd-version.img
#boot=/dev/hde
default=2
timeout=1
splashimage=(hd0,4)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
title Fedora Core (2.6.6-1.435.2.3)
root (hd0,4)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.6-1.435.2.3 ro root=LABEL=/ hdg=noprobe vga=788 rhgb quiet
initrd /initrd-2.6.6-1.435.2.3.img
title Fedora Core (2.6.7)
root (hd0,4)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.7 ro root=LABEL=/ hdg=noprobe selinux=0 vga=788 rhgb quiet
initrd /initrd-2.6.7.img
title Fedora Core (2.6.6)
root (hd0,4)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.6 ro root=LABEL=/ hdg=noprobe selinux=0 vga=788 rhgb quiet
initrd /initrd-2.6.6.img
title Fedora Core (2.6.5-1.358)
root (hd0,4)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.5-1.358 ro root=LABEL=/ hdg=noprobe vga=788 rhgb quiet
initrd /initrd-2.6.5-1.358.img
title Other
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
chainloader +1

The following worked for me.

Plugged up the windows (to be) drive as the primary master. Unplugged the Linux drive completely for peice of mind, cos I don't trust windows more than I'd like to throw it. Installed Windows.

I then whipped the cables back round so that the linux drive was the primary master and windows was on the secondary master. Booted up to linux as usual and configured a grub option to load windows for the next reboot.

For sharing files you might look into creating a separate FAT partition for both to access. I've not done this though.

hey thanks for the reply, but I'm kinda incompetent when it comes to hardware. I know how to disconnect the first hard drive, but how do I set the other as master?

If there's only one hard drive, it's automatically the master..

Hey guys, need ur help again. I disconnected the hard drive with Linux and installed Windows and it is working fine. But I don't konw how to configure GRUB to load windows. My grub.conf is give in my initial post. The hard disk containing windows is /dev/hdb and the boot partition is d: according to windows.

Having windows on the slave drive involves re-mapping the drives so that windows behaves as though it is on the master instead of the slave drive. Do a search of the Linux - Newbie forum for "grub multi boot system". In your search options, de-select case-sensitive if it's selected (the post title isn't consistent in the use of caps). There is an excellent example of the code you need to add to grub.conf.