Invalid Partition Table ????

[DukeNukem]

Hye there Brothers and Sweet Chicks

Can you guys tell me what this message "Invalid Partition Table"

Yesterday i deleted a linux Partition and formeted it as a ntfs one to use it for data dump in windows. then i renamed the drive letters C,D,E,F,G,H i mean

initially it was like

c: 28 GB
d: 20 GB
1 GB LINIX SWAP (for UBUNTU)
9 GB RESIZER (for UBUNTU)
e: 30 GB
f: 30 GB
g: 31.x GB

after formating

c: 28 GB
d: 20 GB
e: 30 GB
f: 30 GB
g: 31.x GB
h: 10 GB

after renaming (labeling, etc) through disk management

c: 28 GB
d: 10 GB
e: 20 GB
f: 30 GB
g: 30 GB
h: 31.x GB

every thing worked fine till here


then i formated the drive C: to reinstall the windows

after the formating and copying files through Bootable XPSP2 CD

it shows a message "Invalid Partition Table"

is there any way to ease my pain. all my drives are full (may be 1 or 2 gb free in each drive, except the newly formated one)

i don wanna loose my data.


thanks in advance.

[Gigacore]

Your MBR has been corrupted, boot from ur XP CD and during the installation begins, it prompt you that an another OS has been found and do u want to repair it? So It asks u to hit a specified button, hit it... the installation will patch ur Current OS.... See the result

And your data will be secure.............

[DukeNukem]

dear SOS Replyer

Thanks

but my data is secure. i can see and use every thing present on my 160GB (after using it as a slave with my 40 GB HDD) HDD trouble is that i cannot install any Win OS on it, as after copying files (first step of the XP setup) when the system reboots it shows the error INVALID PARTITION TABLE. (though i am able to install and use UBUNTU)

what i think is the last option is to fdisk this drive again but i dont have the
spare 149 GB Space to dump my data first as backup


is there any other way, as xp didnt find any other OS while installation procedure.