Dual Booting with horrendous effects 10.1 and WinXP....kill me
 

ok, i got 10.1 installed on another partition of my 50-something gig drive , now the primary partition on the drive is windows XP and the rest is devoted to the linux OS , now i dunno how the hell this happened but after installing 10.1, my windows XP partition DIED. Let me clarify, the files are still on the partition and everything is intact however windows will not boot PERIOD. nothing happens when i go to choose windows from lilo to boot, all i get is a black screen and kaput, nothing happens. I have tried to use the windows XP rescue option off the install disk , i have tried EVERYTHING, i copied the NTLDR and NTDETECT.com files off the cd onto my windows partition , nothing, i had the window disk replace the MBR with the original, i then lost both linux and windows access, and had to reformat my linux partition just to have a working computer, i have tried downloading the fixpartition utility that was posted to a similar problem with booting windows XP in another thread with someone using slackware, still nothing, i tried reinstalling windows over itself, then all i get when i turn my computer on is "no operating system found" . i have tried EVERYTHING i could with the windows install disk , i have tried looking online for any clue as to how to fix this.

Here is my Lilo config

# File generated by DrakX/drakboot
# WARNING: do not forget to run lilo after modifying this file

default="linux"
boot=/dev/hda
map=/boot/map
keytable=/boot/us.klt
prompt
nowarn
timeout=100
message=/boot/message
menu-scheme=wb:bw:wb:bw
image=/boot/vmlinuz
label="linux"
root=/dev/hda5
initrd=/boot/initrd.img
append="devfs=nomount acpi=ht resume=/dev/hda6 splash=silent"
vga=788
read-only
image=/boot/vmlinuz
label="linux-nonfb"
root=/dev/hda5
initrd=/boot/initrd.img
append="devfs=nomount acpi=ht resume=/dev/hda6"
read-only
image=/boot/vmlinuz
label="failsafe"
root=/dev/hda5
initrd=/boot/initrd.img
append="failsafe acpi=ht resume=/dev/hda6 devfs=nomount"
read-only
other=/dev/hda1
label="windows"
table=/dev/hda

here is my windows boot..ini

[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /fastdetect


here is my boot.bed

[boot loader]
timeout=1
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition" /fastdetect

here is my boot.bxp

[boot loader]
timeout=1
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition" /fastdetect

PLEASE please, somone extend some sort of branch and get me out of this quicksand pit i seem to have stepped in -_-


P.S. is there some way i can find out my windows product ID in linux since i can't boot into windows and follow the steps on the microsoft site to find out what it is ?




any help is GREATLY appreciated , thansk in advance.