Ok, so this is a BIT of a messed up situation. To start with I had been running Ubuntu on my Acer aspire 5610 for a couple of weeks but I decided that for my laptop windows XP would be better. I had 2 partitions on my HD: a larger one for Ubuntu and a SMALLER one with backup files. When I installed windows XP I just formated the larger one and installed XP on it but apperently it made it a logical partition instead of a primary. So when I wanted my HD with just one partition I used partition magic and deleted the backup partition, resized the other one to use the whole HD and then I had to convert the logical partition into a primary because there obviously has to be a primary partition. Well this CAUSED my computer to TELL me that it can't find an OS when it tries to boot from the HD. I tried using the windows XP cd's recovery console to fix the boot sector and mbr but when I tried to add my OS to the boot list using 'bootcfg /rebuild' it said that it could not find any OS's to add to the boot list which could be caused by a CORRUPT file system. So I tried using 'chkdsk /r' but that didn't help at all.

So basically I want to know if I can fix this somehow or at least somehow copy some of my files from my HD because I really don't want to lose my pictures and like the idiot I am I didn't back them up. Thanks.You can use a Linux Live CD to burn files to a disc (if you have a burner, across a network, to a pen drive, etc. OR remove the drive and slave it into another machine.

You could also reinstall WIndows, but that would risk your data. Best to save that first.