i was having xpsp2 installed on my SYSTEM,today i wanted to load fedora linux also into my system,it was installed correctly and was working fine,but when i started to work on my previously installed xp it didnot boot and showed the messange "NTLDR missing
PRESS ctrl-alt-del to restart" after restarting it showed the same message,so i tried to install a fresh copy of xp on my pc but the bootable disc didnot boot,it shows the message press any key to boot from cd and after that the screen goes blanck,i tried to install several os from sp1,media centre edition,windows 2000,but none of them goes to boot,now i dont know what to do with my system,one thing i want to add is that my linux is working fine.
Somebody pls help meSounds like the Linux installed messed up your boot partition for Windows. SORRY I don't have much experience in Linux yet but maybe Rob will be by and help.

Alan <>< You did partition your harddrive correctly, right? Do you have GRUB installed? You need to install XP first, then install Linux.

Normally after Linux is installed, it will find the Windows partition and tells you it's ok to install GRUB. Use GRUB as your boot loader and put your Windows on the chainloader. When you boot up, GRUB will present a MENU, Linux kernel, Linux recovery and Mem test, then Windows is under Other operating system. You can do this with LILO or even Windows' own startup menu. Depends on how you like it. I found using GRUB is the better way.

Go to /boot/grub/menu.lst or /etc/lilo.conf if your are using LILO. Make a copy of it and post it here.

One of my PCs can boot into Win98, WIN2K, WinXP, Ubuntu, Mepis and Debian.

B.