One messed up Linux/XP dual boot laptop

[maslett]

Hi, I'm no noob but I have one messed up laptop. It's an XP pro/Linux dual boot machine and yesterday I went to install SP2 - it crashed and now my c: drive has disappeared. I booted up using a BART PE cd but couldn't swap the Bart cd for my xp cd as Bart would crash when I took it out. Then copied xp to a usb drive and tried to install from there but when it got to the 'do you want an NTFS drive' it looped back to the beggining. It was then I noticed I had no c: drive (D'oh!).

What I think I need is some linux tool that will allow me to create a new [NTFS] c: drive so I can reinstall xp.

Any help on this would be most appreciated.

Cheers,
Matt

 

[RhythmAce]

Can you boot into linux? If so, just reinstall the boot loader. It could be that your upgrade overwrote the master boot record (MBR) which is where grub (or lilo) live. If you reinstall XP, it will for sure overwrite the MBR and you will lose linux.

 

[maslett]

Can't even boot into Linux anymore. Looks like it's a complete rebuild. Grrrrrr. At least all my data is safe.

Cheers for the reply anyway.