i currently on another computer that still work (thank god)
i figured out the problem but i can't seam to fix it
and just to make sure i'm right about the problem let me explain what happen
a couple months back i installed mandrake on the same hard drive with my windows
after fiddling with linux for a month or 2 (trying to get my wireless network adaptor to work with it) i decided i should free the spaceup for my harddrive becasue i was running out fast and linux was useless if there was no internet
heh
so since there was no way to "uninstall" it i decide just to reforamt the partion for windows
well that all whent fine but the boot loader that i used to switch between windows and linux was still there and before i didn't have a problem becasue i would just select windows and go and if i didn't do that in the 8 seconds it gave me it would just give the mandrake boot up bar and nothing else would happen (duh...)
about 3 months later (now) it didn't show the boot loader
and just "l 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99"... ect it would fill the half the screen with that
so i tried to repairing windows that didn't work and i tryed to run the "fix boot" from the repair console
and that didn't work so this is were i'm stumped
now i heard there is master boot thing but the problem is the fix boot program doesn't seam fix that
so can some one help me out here
i would really apreciate it
oh and i'm tying to avoid reformating the harddrive completely
thanks
