mac pro boot camp woes

Okay, this is my first post on "major geeks"
I've been up and down the beach trying to find a way off "unbuntu" Island...
and I can't seem to get back to my normal happy mac/windows xp sp2 partition.

One day I tried to Install Unbuntu, with their Live CD on an already existing partition that had been created with the beta version of boot camp. I started out with Bootcamp in the Mac environment making a windows partition allowing me to startup the install process with the Windows XP Professional "student" edition. At that moment it's when things started to go wrong. I accidentally repartitioned the wrong drive, because I wasn't used to how things were described, and I hadn't done the necessary research beforehand.
I later was able to get the partitions back on the drive I messed up with Testdisk and pdisk.

I did however find the correct drive and formatted one C drive to an NTFS partition, but it was the whole disk. All 500GBs.. minus whatever mac puts in there so it can recognize it in bootcamp (this is sort of what i need help on too... knowing all the various partition names and what have you that Bootcamp puts on there, vs the windows xp install disk, vs... what "testdisk" sees.. etc...

So then I went back to the mac once windows xp system on the NTFS partition was installed and tried to give it another partition in bootcamp... however NTFS is unreadable.. so I had to find some solutions there.. I was able to do a proceedure that makes it readable and writable but Bootcamp still couldn't do anything with it.

I tried to add another partition with the windows xp install disk but to no avail there either so I went to the Unbuntu Live disk partitioner to squeeze the partition down to a 60 gig NTFS partition and a 440 (+-) gig Fat 32 for storing my photos.

Plus before all of this I just updated to Leopard and also have an official Bootcamp program and got all of the updates for them... so when I did all this new Partition stuff to that 500GB hard drive I used the new versions of everything.

When I finished the whole process the new harddrive wouldn't start up in windows xp, and now for some reason my good original Mac Partition and th original Bootcamp 31GB WindowsXP FAT32 Partition are having problems too.

Here is what I originally had working: Mac Pro: Tiger 210 GB partition HFS+ Journaled and a the most updated Bootcamp (beta) created 31GB MSDos Fat32 Windows XP SP2 Windows Partition, and on a separate 500 GB hard Drive I had two Mac HFS+ Partitions of various size, one with a bootable system which is what I am using right now to start up my computer. And on a third hard drive I currently have a working 500gb NTFS windows xp sp2 partition and a bootable system.

When I go to bootcamp in my 65GB Mac partition It shows all four working partitions (startup systems): Mac Os X, 10.4.11 on "65GBMac_Part"
Mac OS X, 10.5.3 on "210GB_Mac_Part"
Windows on "31GBPC_Part" which is the 30GB FAT32 partition
and Windows on "Untitled" which is the 500GB NTFS partition
however
After using test disk to get my two Mac Partitions Back from the mistake I now also have a 200mb partition called "EFI" and I don't know how to make that invisible like it was before... I'm assuming that was put there by the original mac software/disk utility/bootcamp... etc..

when I actually pick the windows partition on the 31 GBPC it brings up a black screen and says with a blinking cursor "Grub"
and that's it.

The NTFS partition runs fine

The other mac partition until a moment ago wasn't showing up at all.
I can however acess the drives and partitions themselves once in the mac environment, they just don't boot up correctly.

When I'm in the one working Windows XP environment on the NTFS partition
and go to bootcamp it shows me
only the Mac 65GBMac_Part option and 3 Windows options to start up in, of those two windows options, only one works.

What I was ultimately trying to do was to have 3 Disks
One that Had a stable Mac HFS+/EFi Partition and startup system running Leopard
and a 30 GB Windows Xp partition on a Fat32 partition

2nd Disk was a 500GB Western Digital with two Mac HFS+/EFI partitions one with a bootable system running Tiger and the other 400GB was for a partition for just storage

and the 3rd Internal Hard Drive was supposed to have an 8GB partition for Unbuntu
a 50 GB NTFS partition to run Windows XP
and the Rest of the Free Space was to have a FAT32 400GB partition Storage Disk for Photos.

I of course was trying to do all of this while keeping the existing startup systems still intact, by using some sort of partitioning software that moves everything into a small area and then slides the partition over... without erasing everything. I guess I messed it up. I was getting greedy with the Unbuntu partition. I didn't really need that, but that is what has messed everything up...

Please help.. if you can understand this post at all.. I know it's very confusing and a long drawn out process. I am confused as hell now...

Summary:
I have had glimmers of hope only to be disappointed with the results. "TestDisk" helped me get my two mac partitions back and allows me to start up with them again, but the pc part of my first mac drive that has both mac and pc on it seems fried (Unbuntu thing going on), and the 500gb NTFS windows xp partition and startup system seems fine... I don't really need Unbuntu at all. I just want my three disks with their startup/bootable systems and storage partitions working and fine....


thank you "Major Geeks Forums" or anyone for taking this project with me on...

 

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