okay here's what happened

- needed to backup important FILES and reboot PC as it was virused up
- so installed ubuntu alongside windows xp from a ubuntu CD in the hope i could transfer my files
- found out i cant access any of my windows files from ubuntu despite trying many different online tutorials, and now can't load windows xp because of grub

so basically all i want is access to my C: drive, does anyone have any IDEAS?
thanks.Can you access it when using the Ubuntu Live CD (without actually INSTALLING it)?

Is "ntfs-3g" installed?

Around you able to navigate to the drive, but just not copy things from it?

Are you getting any error messages, or nothing at all?Thank you for replying

It does not work any more using the live cd

ntfs-3g is shown as installed on the package manager

To try and access the files, I used this tutorial at
http://www.wikihow.com/Access-Windows-Files-in-Ubuntu
And always get the error

'NTFS signature is missing.
Failed to mount '/dev/sda2' : Invalid argument
The device '/dev/sda2' doesn't SEEM to have a valid NTFS'

So i cannot EVEN access the files.At the command line, as root post your results of:

fdisk -l