hallo please help me im in a big problem i was over at my friends house and i helped him install fedora core 3 the same distro i use anyway after we finished installing and wanted to log in to windows we pressed the other button at the grub menu and all it wrote was

rootnoverify (hd0,0)
chainloader +1

we tried to install agian but with no luck!
we even tried to install suse 9.1 but that didnt work either
please please help me!!!

my friend has a lot of important things on his computer and he dosnt want to format it

please what can i do so windows will start??

thank you all

p.s

the windows is on hde1 and the linux is on hde5 & 6 & 7

May be you meant windows at hdc1, and not hde1
Here's what to do:
In the grub screen, when the list of OS's appear, hit "c" (without quotes) to enter command prompt.
In the prompt, type the following:

rootnoverify(hd2,0)
chainloader +1
boot

If you can boot into windows now, then all you have to do is change the entry
from rootnoverify(hd0,0) to rootnoverify(hd2,0) in the /etc/grub.conf file of linux.

Plan B:
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If this doesn't work, you can always recover the master boot to boot only windows, so you can install linux later.
If it is windows 98, boot from a startup floppy disk and type "fdisk/mbr"
If it is winXP, boot from the installation disk, when asked, type r to enter rescue mode.
In the prompt that appears, type "fixmbr"

ok thanks for your anwer but the first thing you said didnt work
and the second will.... i just couldnot boot from the install disc
it didnt work and no i didnt mean hdc i meant hde please anyone else?

What do you mean by ?

i mean it like got to a black screen and thats it.... got stuck

The disk you're referring to is a floppy disk or a compact disk? Regardless, what version of Window$ does it belong to? Is there a possibility that it might be broken (scratched or something else), have you tried accessing it on another machine?No messages at all?

its a windows xp
and the disc i fine
but im looking for solution that will keep my linux understand?

I use this to boot my Windows XP :

So I think you need to add makeactive option.

ok thanks i will try it

ok i am in the rescue mode of windows xp right now with a laptop

i wrote fixmbr and it wrote back

fixmbr may damage your partiton tables if you proceed
bla bla bla
are you sure you want to write a new mbr?


what should i do? by pressing yes will my windows have a chance to be destroyd? or just my linux?