what happened to my partition table?!

for some reason the ubuntu installer or the GAG boot loader cannot see my partition table anymore. I just finished installing XP onto my system, so i think that it may have written over the partition table somehow. The table itself has not changed, because under my computer it is still ok. I cannot install ubuntu without being able to see my partition table because it wants to make a new one for me.

how can i fix this problem?

 

lemme know when u fix it, lol. Ive got 160gb x2 HDDs and when im tryin to make changes: to format or merge a partition using Partition Magic - it says one of the HDDs tables is ****ed up. But windows says its all fine, fail.

 

Speaking of Partition Magic, could I use that on Vista to wipe all the formatted (Dell, Media Direct) partitions on a laptop, then do a fresh install with the OEM disks? I've been thinking about doing that, but didnt want to fudge anything up

 

when i have tried to use it, i had a message that one of the HDD from the raid on my laptop is damagaed. It was the one which had vista installed on. Idk whats up with your notebook, might be fine with using one HDD only. I solved formatting problem using wix xp cd and picking the local dick which had vista installed as the main xp disk, so it got formatted. The only fail thing i got now is two win xp's boot sectors @ the HDD so i have to select the workable distributive of winxp. I made the .bat file to autoload it everytime automatically with 1 second delay so when the laptops starting, it takes one more second to log winxp. I also heard vista n xp format n loadin problems might be fixed using ERD Commander but i havent tried it out yet.

 

I didnt have time to try to fix it so i just wiped the hard drive and started over, sorry i cant be of any help