I have 20 GB of harddrive. Used first 10G for xp (NTFS), used 5G for linux, and 600mb for linux swap, the rest was unformatted. Then I downloaded a program called "Paragon Parition Manager". I used that program to format the unformatted paritition to FAT32 so that i can use it as the sink between xp and linux. the problem is that when I made the FAT partition active, the program asked me there's multiple bootable paritions and asked me i wanted to go with it. i didn't know it would be problem, so went with it. At that moment, xp was detecting the FAT parition without a problem. then when I restarted my computer, instead of boot-loading into xp, it returned a message saying "invalid parition table". I used xp CD and performed fixmbr, but apparently, still doesn't help. i made all 4 parititions as primary. does anyone know how i can fix this problem? get back into xp? or at least save the files from the NTFS paritition? thx a lot. any help will be appreciated greatly.

Here is what I would try . Boot into Recovery Console again Type FIXBOOT Press ENTER after this command and answer Y to any questions to allow it to go through. Once this command is completed type the following: BOOTCFG /REBUILD It will detect windows installation and ask if you would like to add it. Add it. For Load Identifier type "Windows XP" For OS Load Options type "/fastdetect" Hope this helps.