Grub runs upto stage 1.5 & then gives error 17

[Shirish Agarwal]

Hi all,
      I have one 80 GB HDD which has Windows XPSP2 (NTFS based) & 
Ubuntu 6.06 upgraded to Ubuntu 6.10 (ext2). It had GNU GRUB 0.97 running 
underneath it all. Everything was running fine  & suddenly yesterday it 
gave me error 17. Looking in Grub Legacy came to know tht error 17 means :-

http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/grub.html#Stage1_002e5-errors

17 : Cannot mount selected partition
   This error is returned if the partition requested exists, but the
   filesystem type cannot be recognized by GRUB.

 Now in such should I re-install everything or is there some sorta hack 
which can make it good without re-installing the whole thing.
         Lastly when we should be able to see Grub2 being used in 
main-stream distros.  Thnx in advance.

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