Lol .. I edited the thread title to Woes instead of Woves ..

Earlier I thought it was some typo of wives..

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Well .. now to your problem .. That problem started after PCQLinux na .. ? Didnt XP booted even once after installing PcqLinux ..?
This happened to me too and the Grub getting stuck at Chainloader 1 .. What I did was changing the IDE access setting from BIOS ..
If you are using an IDE disk, try changing the access mode to LBA instead of CHS .. This worked for me ...
Plus .. you could try using OSLoader and see if the Linux partition boots with it ..