HUGE partition problem: Error 13

[PharmD]

Okay guys I have two partitions, a Windows XP partition and Ubuntu. Recently I shut down windows, booted up ubuntu, then later shut it down as well. Later I came back to start up the windows partition and it is giving me an error 13 and saying I can't start the partition. Can someone please help, I have very important documents and can't afford to lose them. Nothing else was changed. I do have the partition program "something" live burnt onto a CD if that helps but I just have no ideas as to where to go next.

I did find a thread on this in the forum but they said to check menu.lst and make sure it said hd(0,0) and it does so I am confused.

[pastalavista]

post the menu.list text


(you should be able to see (most of) your windows partitions and access documents on them with Ubuntu)

[PharmD]

title Ubuntu 8.04, kernel 2.6.24-16-generic
root (hd0,4)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-16-generic root=UUID=888c227f-c41b-471a-97b1-a6da9656896f ro quiet splash
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.24-16-generic
quiet

title Ubuntu 8.04, kernel 2.6.24-16-generic (recovery mode)
root (hd0,4)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-16-generic root=UUID=888c227f-c41b-471a-97b1-a6da9656896f ro single
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.24-16-generic

title Ubuntu 8.04, memtest86+
root (hd0,4)
kernel /boot/memtest86+.bin
quiet

### END DEBIAN AUTOMAGIC KERNELS LIST

# This is a divider, added to separate the menu items below from the Debian
# ones.
title Other operating systems:
root


# This entry automatically added by the Debian installer for a non-linux OS
# on /dev/sda1
title Dell Utility Partition
root (hd0,0)
savedefault
makeactive
chainloader +1


# This entry automatically added by the Debian installer for a non-linux OS
# on /dev/sda2
title Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition
root (hd0,1)
savedefault
makeactive
chainloader +1

[jsc1959]

here is a description of various grub error messages. Hope this helps.

http://www.uruk.org/orig-grub/errors.html#stage2