[hemanthsam]

My windows crashed after i installed a linux on my system. I tried installing windows on the same partition on which linux was installed after fully formatting my system. After i format the drive and the windows should start booting...it doesn happen like that....it again asks me for a partition to install..I tried removing the windows cd so that it wud not go again to the same place....but it now says INVALID PARTITION TABLE. pls help..thank in advance...

My OS is XP SP2....I had tried installing KUBUNTU

[YarrOfDoom]

How did you format it, with the build-in function from the Windows Setup? If I remember correctly, you have to choose a drive, and then have some options, including using a partition or completely reformatting the drive for Windows. If you haven't done that already, you should try the complete reformat that way.

[Nepomuk]

Do you still have the Kubuntu CD? If so, you can probably use it to delete all partitions and then start from the beginning. Windows doesn't always do a good job of that.

If so, start the Kubuntu Live CD, open a terminal and try running the commands sudo gparted, sudo qtparted and sudo parted (just one of those would be enough, although the first to would be easier). Each one of these commands should give you a partitioning program, with which I'd just remove all of the partitions used for Windows and Linux before (including the SWAP partition, if it's still there!), however not the data drives. Then create a new partition (FAT32 or NTFS) for Windows, shut down Kubuntu and start the Windows installation again. That should do the job.

Greetings,
Nepomuk