Grub fails on Windows "This is not a bootable disk"

Hi Everyone,

I'm fairly new to Mepis but successfully installed v6.5 on my laptop. Then I got cocky and experimented with my wife's machine... :-0

Her machine is a Compaq Presario v3000 and I got Mepis 6.5 (great release!) and Windows dual-booting in harmony until recently arount the time I took and update of 5 or so mepis-* packages (maybe this could be the problem). Anyway,

Grub Error is

rootnoverify (hd0,0)
chainloader + 1
This is not a bootable disk

===== menu.lst is

timeout 15
color cyan/blue white/blue
foreground ffffff
background 0639a1

gfxmenu /boot/grub/message

title MEPIS at sda2, newest kernel
root (hd0,1)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/sda2 nomce quiet vga=791 resume=/dev/sda5
boot

title MEPIS at sda2, previous kernel (if any)
root (hd0,1)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz.old root=/dev/sda2 nomce quiet vga=791 resume=/dev/sda5
boot

title MEPIS at sda2, kernel 2.6.15-27-desktop64-smp
root (hd0,1)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.15-27-desktop64-smp root=/dev/sda2 nomce quiet vga=791 resume=/dev/sda5
boot

title Windows at sda1
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
chainloader +1

title MEMTEST
kernel /boot/memtest86+.bin

=== and fdisk-l

root@0[~]# fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 60.0 GB, 60022480896 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 7297 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 3882 31182133+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2 3883 4519 5116702+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda3 4520 7297 22314285 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 4520 4774 2048256 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda6 4775 7297 20265966 83 Linux

===== uname -a
Linux Presario 2.6.15-27-desktop64-smp #1 SMP PREEMPT Mon Mar 12 22:09:42 EDT 2007 x86_64 GNU/Linux

I've rooted through the forums but can't find the answer. I hope I have included the right info to help you diagnose. Any help for me and wife is greatly appreciated.

Wakeman.