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Ok, I know that this issue has been posted many times. I've been through alot of those threads and I still cannot fix my issue. I installed fedora after windows ...
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    Error 13 : Invalid or unsupported executable format

    Ok, I know that this issue has been posted many times. I've been through alot of those threads and I still cannot fix my issue. I installed fedora after windows XP about a month ago, everything works fine on fedora except I can no longer boot into windows.
    I get this error: Error 13 : Invalid or unsupported executable format

    here is the output to fdisk -l:

    Code:
    # fdisk -l
    
    Disk /dev/sda: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
    255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders
    Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
    Disk identifier: 0x1549f232
    
       Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
    /dev/sda1   *           1         260     2088418+   7  HPFS/NTFS
    /dev/sda2           41551       60800   154625625    f  W95 Ext'd (LBA)
    /dev/sda3             261         285      200812+  83  Linux
    /dev/sda4             286       41550   331461112+  8e  Linux LVM
    /dev/sda5           41551       60800   154625593+   7  HPFS/NTFS
    
    Partition table entries are not in disk order
    and here is my menu.lst:

    Code:
    # grub.conf generated by anaconda
    #
    # Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file
    # NOTICE:  You have a /boot partition.  This means that
    #          all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg.
    #          root (hd0,2)
    #          kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00
    #          initrd /initrd-version.img
    #boot=/dev/sda
    default=0
    timeout=5
    splashimage=(hd0,2)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
    hiddenmenu
    title Fedora (2.6.27.24-170.2.68.fc10.i686)
            root (hd0,2)
            kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.27.24-170.2.68.fc10.i686 ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/Lo$
            initrd /initrd-2.6.27.24-170.2.68.fc10.i686.img
    title Fedora (2.6.27.21-170.2.56.fc10.i686)
            root (hd0,2)
            kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.27.5-117.fc10.i686 ro root=UUID=774c5b68-3e5a-4db7-$
            initrd /initrd-2.6.27.5-117.fc10.i686.img
    title  Windows XP
            root  (hd0,0)
            savedefault
            makeactive
            chainloader +1
    title Other
    	rootnoverify (hd0,4)
            chainloader +1
    Once again I'm sorry to repost something like this, I was just completely stumped. Thanks in advanced.

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    Any suggestions? i really don't want to have to reinstall XP, all the things i had on it and risk it removing grub completely...

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