can't access my windows files!

[apoorvajsh]

okay here's what happened

- needed to backup important files and reboot PC as it was virused up
- so installed ubuntu alongside windows xp from a ubuntu CD in the hope i could transfer my files
- found out i cant access any of my windows files from ubuntu despite trying many different online tutorials, and now can't load windows xp because of grub

so basically all i want is access to my C: drive, does anyone have any ideas?
thanks.

[SilentAssasin64]

Can you access it when using the Ubuntu Live CD (without actually installing it)?

Is "ntfs-3g" installed?

Around you able to navigate to the drive, but just not copy things from it?

Are you getting any error messages, or nothing at all?

[apoorvajsh]

Thank you for replying

It does not work any more using the live cd

ntfs-3g is shown as installed on the package manager

To try and access the files, I used this tutorial at
http://www.wikihow.com/Access-Windows-Files-in-Ubuntu
And always get the error

'NTFS signature is missing.
Failed to mount '/dev/sda2' : Invalid argument
The device '/dev/sda2' doesn't seem to have a valid NTFS'

So i cannot even access the files.

[FlyFishing]

At the command line, as root post your results of:

fdisk -l