Desktop with two hard drives. Vista on a 500 gig and Ubuntu on an 80.
First boot of the day WINDOWS wanted to CHECK the file segment addresses and I let it do so. It took two days and a night and said the file segments were all unreadable. I went to bed.
The next day the first boot said 'no boot loader.' I tried again and it made it to the choice of Vista or Ubuntu. I chose Vista and it started loading windows FILES. Page upon page. I haven't CHECKED YET (It's in the other room) I will try ubuntu in awhile.
Any ideas?
Thanks so Much.Busted HD?You are absolutely correct. I borrowed a disc from a friend with a program called 'Spin Right.' It showed several faults with the 500 gig drive. So I called New Egg and they are going to trade me a new drive.

The sun is shining here in southern Ohio. CDEarth sent me an email saying they were refunding the money I was complaining they scammed me out of the other day. I need to thank Geek After Dark if I can find him. I didn't contact them further.

Thanks for all the good advice,
You guys have a lot of power.Hey, it looks like you're gonna end up OK
Thanks for posting back.