What I did was put my 10GB drive back in and followed John's grub command line instructions: grub> root (hd0,0) Fliesystem type is unknown, partition type 0x7 grub> chainloader +1 grub> boot and it boots into Windows fine (I have to do this whenever I boot though). I deleted the partitions from the apparently bad drive using the disk management tool, next I'm going to go into KNOPPIX and fdisk, then try reinstalling. Thanks for the help. :)