After searching the forums ,I couldn't find the answer to my particular issue. Here goes.I. have two Hdd's on my Pc. One holds the original XP upgrade and is the smaller drive of the two. It's the master and is 37.27 gb with no partion that I see when looking in my disk management. The other Hdd's my slave drive. It's veiwed on my disc management screen as being partitioned ...149gb as primary and 2.86gb as logical. I loaded EasyBcd on the Xp drive. Then added the linux optipn as the number two below the default windows....with Grub 2....I left the windows MBR as is because I had changed it to the XP option and had lost my boot mgr. on the next boot-up. So now I leave as it is with win-7-vista. Also before I forget...on my disc management page my Xp partition disc is listed as '0' and the ubuntu is listed as '1' . So when I boot up in Xp the screen has two options reading for Xp and the second option reads "unidentified OS on Drive C. When I choose that option the screen goes black with two little squiggley marks flashing on top.I obviosly have done a boo-boo.....Can you pretend I just landed from Mars an explain in detail ...step by step how to load my EasyBcd page to work. Thank you. Sincerly,Zimmy