Hi I have fedora 12 installed.. it was going very well with windows xp. I choose ext4 partition for it.
I installed it from the liveCD, i then made the usb version of it. I tested the usbversion, i was able to access the hard disk and auto mount all the partions, even linux partion.
Suddenly i restarted my computer today and found out that the grub is coming up fine but when i choose to boot, it fails saying
Windows XP is coming up fine, no problems in that.
OK..so i plug in my usb device and boot from usb to the live fedora version, it boots up fine, but now its not able to recognize my hardisk..
While checking the various mounts.... using the "disk utility"..it says unrecognized hard-disk...
If i start the installer again, it says
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Need to reinitialize the hard disk, you may loose all data
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This is really strange.. it was working fine yesterday and now nothing seems to be working, except the windows xp
i later checked the disk using windows and it has no problem in recognizing the various disk partitions using control panel >> administrative tool >> computer management
Now i have only windows xp with me, i updated my fedora also installed VLC and Wine.. now its gone..

any ideas suggestion what could have gone wrong.. or like what possible way i can get it back..
The MBR seems to be fine as i see the GRUB loading, its that when i select the fedora menu, it starts of with the starting screen
As i have Nvidia drivers installed... i see the 3 colored line moving at the bottom of the screen.. but ends up with an error