hi all! I've got a huge problem: I have an IBM T41 notebook with a 40G harddisk. I had XP and Mandrake 10 on it, and both systems booted and ran well. Then, i installed SuSE Linux 9.0 over the Mandrake distro, and since then, Win XP does not boot anymore: the XP startup logo appears for 2 seconds and then i get a bluescreen telling me STOP 0x000000ED - UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_VOLUME. I am totally puzzled, because i did not expect the SuSE installation routine to mess up my partition table or MBR, since all the messy work (resizing NTFS, re-partitioning, etc.) has been successfully completed when i installed Mandrake, and both systems (XP, mandrake) have coexisted peacefully. Therefore i thought installing SuSE over mandrake will be a piece of cake. Here is my current hard disk layout: ------------------------------------- Disk /dev/hda: 5168 cylinders, 240 heads, 63 sectors/track Units = cylinders of 7741440 bytes, blocks of 1024 bytes, counting from 0 Device Boot Start End #cyls #blocks Id System /dev/hda1 * 0+ 1081 1082- 8179888+ 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/hda2 1082 4706- 3625- 27401472 5 Extended /dev/hda3 4707 5167 461 3485160 83 Linux /dev/hda4 0 - 0 0 0 Empty /dev/hda5 1082+ 2147- 1066- 8058424+ b Win95 FAT32 /dev/hda6 2147+ 4242- 2095- 15838168+ 83 Linux /dev/hda7 4242+ 4706- 464- 3504784+ 82 Linux swap I can boot Linux (which is on /dev/hda6) and it runs well, and interestingly, i can access both windows partitions from Linux (/dev/hda1 as /windows/C, / dev/hda5 as /windows/d). BTW, SuSE installed the GRUB boot manager, so i thought maybe this has something to do with it. I used YAST2 to change it to LILO, but this did not help either. To sum up: I am left now with a non-booting XP and a working linux system. However, i need XP for my job. I have read that i can run a CHKDSK from the XP recovery CD, but i am hesitating for 2 reasons: 1. i fear that this will make linux unaccessible to me (kill the grub bootmanager, etc.) 2. i have to get the XP CD from the Sysadmin, who will get mad at me when i explain the situation :-] what do you think causes my problem? how can i fix it? What would you do in my situation? Thanks! Joe PS: i don't blame SuSE, Linux or MS for this. I am fully aware that partitioning and disk resizing etc. should not be done by filesys rookies like myself...!