I have been using Linux and ubuntu dual boot for a while. I recently did a few major updates to computer and though that I may as well just start by wiping hard-drive as mine was getting very cluttered and Windows was becoming very slow and ubuntu 8.04 was about a year old, so I waited for 9.04 to be released then tried installing that, it didn't recognise my existing partitions odly but I installed a new parition table and set Ubuntu to have about 30gb, on ext4, I dedicated 150gb to a DATA partition which was fat32. This left me about 50gb (250gb hard drive but only 232gb of storage space on it).
Ubuntu was fairly happy. The standard video drivers didn't work, I think because of my crossfire setup but the ATi ones seem to work fine. So I tried to install Windows. I have an emachines restore DVD which is does not support partitions so I had to use another XP cd which was the upgrade edition. Went for the clean install, it asked for an existing Windows CD so I put in the eMachines recovery DVD, which it accepted, I then made a 25gb NTFS (quick format) parition and then swichted back to the Upgrade cd. The Install worked fine and installed the files, restarted the computer.
After the restart it said press any key to load from cd, this is the point where it stopped, there are 3 scenarios. I press a key and I can start the install again. I don't plress a key and it either does nothing, or it says Disk boot failure, insert system dik and press enter. So I insert system disk adn press enter and the message appareas again.
Any help would be great as, great as linux is, I do need Windows. I have done the fisrt part several times. And each time a try I need to restore grub to give me ubuntu back so I can at least use my computer.
Computer Specs if they help
Ubuntu was fairly happy. The standard video drivers didn't work, I think because of my crossfire setup but the ATi ones seem to work fine. So I tried to install Windows. I have an emachines restore DVD which is does not support partitions so I had to use another XP cd which was the upgrade edition. Went for the clean install, it asked for an existing Windows CD so I put in the eMachines recovery DVD, which it accepted, I then made a 25gb NTFS (quick format) parition and then swichted back to the Upgrade cd. The Install worked fine and installed the files, restarted the computer.
After the restart it said press any key to load from cd, this is the point where it stopped, there are 3 scenarios. I press a key and I can start the install again. I don't plress a key and it either does nothing, or it says Disk boot failure, insert system dik and press enter. So I insert system disk adn press enter and the message appareas again.
Any help would be great as, great as linux is, I do need Windows. I have done the fisrt part several times. And each time a try I need to restore grub to give me ubuntu back so I can at least use my computer.
Computer Specs if they help