HELP...pretty please


I had to reinstall winxp (again) that seems to have overwritten the mbr so linux did not show as a choice.
Reinstalled that yep you got it Ubuntu is now the only OS I hav a choice of.

Can anyone help me restore the system so that I have a choice of OS (need windoze to help family etc..)

thanks for looking and appreciate any help you can offer

ubuntu uses grub so the fedora bit of code should work .
any Ubuntu users correct me if i am wrong
( using Gnome)
and add this at the bottom
then hit enter to add a blank line at the end of the file and save
you may need to play with the numbers a bit (hd0,0) or (hd0,1)

"sudo fdisk -l" from a Ubuntu terminal will give you an idea of which partition you might need to chainload.

In Ubuntu the grub boot file is called menu.lst, in some other Linux such as Fedora, it's called grub.conf, but really is the same file. If you can boot up into your Ubuntu desktop, click to open a terminal window, (which is like a command prompt text window in windows), then just type in this here; sudo gedit /boot/grub/menu.lst , and hit enter. This should open that grub boot file so you can add XP to it, like the other post guy showed, title XP
root (hd0,0)
makeactive
chainloader +1
your root depends on which hard drive and partition number your XP is installed on, in this example it is the 1rst drive, first partition.

Hi,
To restore the M$ Win/XP you can use the XP 'fdisk /mbr' after booting the M$ XP cd.

Once you have the 'MBR' restored you follow the previous instructions.

Thanks for your responses guys, trying it out now...
so far got windows xp to shows as an option..however I then get the folowing error message
"25 error whilst parsing number"
does the fact that I have Royale xp make any difference to the entry needed?
I will keep playing and try to get it working

once again thank you for your help