can't boot windows after Ubuntu install / messed up part. table

[rene_est]

Hello,
have searched the INet for the whole night for fix - nothing

1 physical HDD

I had previosly:
C: 2GB FAT32 (that has nothing useful on it (empty Dell recovery drive)
E: Windows XP Home (~147GB)

Now there should be:
C: 2GB FAT32
E: 132GB NTFS Windows XP Home
F: ~12GB Ubuntu
G: ~3GB SWAP

Made 15GB empty NTFS partition with a 3rd party software
Installed Ubuntu to that new F: drive. Ubuntu works, can't boot into Windows:
a) root>system32\hal.dll error.
Tried fixing it in Windows disk recovery console:
D:\WINDOWS>SYSTEM32 (ok)
D:\WINDOWS>SYSTEM32\map (ok)
D:\WINDOWS>SYSTEM32\expand d:\i386\hal.dl_ (ok)
D:\WINDOWS>SYSTEM32\exit (ok)
Then:
attrib -h -r -s D:\Boot.ini (parameter invalid)
Del D:\Boot.ini (file doesn't exist)
Bootcfg /Rebuild (operation failed)
b) CHKDSK found one or more errors

During Ubuntu install used 'last' option - Specify partitions manually

Disk /dev/sda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000080

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 262 2104483+ b W95 FAT32
/dev/sda2 263 17902 141693300 f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sda3 17903 19457 12490537+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda5 263 17537 138761406 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda6 17538 17902 2931831 82 Linux swap / Solaris
rene@rene-laptop:~$

Something is messed up, to be modest.
I'd be grateful for any help!

PS: I can get into files that are on the Windows drive from Ubuntu

[Duke.Augustine]

Did you try the steps below?
1. Insert Windows system CD
2. Reboot your system
3. Run shell as administator
4. Execute 'fixmbr'
5. Reboot your system again.

[rene_est]

now I lost the Ubuntu, too.
There were a warning when I tried to use the fixmbr command for the first time. Then I backed down, not this time. GRUB is gone and I still can't boot into XP. I repeated everything written in the 1st post - still no luck.