during the install process, the harddrive was corrupted. the partition managers take forever to read.

when i plugged in the hdd as a slave on my winxp machine, winxp kicks up chkdsk which says that a lot of file record segments are unreadable.

any idea how i can repair this? the harddrive has ntfs on it since was a slave drive from my winxp machine.

17 views but nobody knows how to deal with it?

that's nothing---there's always more "looky-loos" than players.

You will need to give some more details here....eg did Ubuntu install successfully? If not, where did it fail?
What partitioning option did you choose during the install?

Windows can't read Linux filesystems, so whatever Windows tried to tell you is probably not useful

Assuming your Ubuntu CD is a "live CD", boot up from that, open a terminal and enter "fdisk -l" Post the results here.

If there was any valuable data on the disk which was not backed up, then don't write to the disk. Otherwise, the easiest thing may be to simply try the Ubuntu install again.

Use the repair on the windows CD to fix it. If you just want your files back and data use a program called ghost - which makes it so you can retrieve all your lost data onto a new hdd. However I think that you should use the windows repair before anything.

Ghost does not do recovery--as far as I know.