I just installed 8.04 on a system with Win XP Home on it also. I used the guided partition in the install to create a Linux partition on the 500GB HDD. Everything installed ok...

The problem is, I did this once before and it used to ask me which OS I wanted to boot into. Now, it just boots directly into Win XP whenever the computer is restarted.

Also, I setup 200GB for Linux, so my HDD only shows it has 300GB left on it, and I can't seemed to figure out how to erase the Linux partition and get it back to recognizing the full 500GB. If I try to go through the install again, it only shows a 300GB HDD on the system, and tries to partition that further.

Any ideas would be great, thanks.