I messed up real bad.
 

Ok so maybe 6 months ago i installed FC3 onto my desktop (im on my laptop now). And since im new to linux and installing new OS's all together, i accidentally made it so my computer boots to fedora over XP (my goal was to have FC3 as a secondary OS to XP). So whenever i started my computer, i had to hit a key then scroll down to my windows partition to boot from it.

So im bored today and i try fixing this problem, and in doing that (and not really knowing how to do it in the first palce) i decided to use partition magic to remove the fedora partion all together. My partitions looked like this ntfs, C:, Linux ext, then another partition which appeared to be wrapped around another partition, both totalling over 5 gigs. so i deleted the linux ext one, and the other two (the one wrapped around the other). Partition magic said the operation was completed, so i restarted my computer.

So now, my computer starts and boots straight to a black command line screen that says "grub> ". So i start to worry and try restarting to my C:, same thing happens. So i try booting to my XP disk, same thing happens, as with my fedora rescue cd.

Does anyone have any help from me? I mean, my C: is still there, it just wont let me boot to it. What the hell do i do?

Hope this helps;
http://www.microsoft.com/resources/d...d_tro_ldau.asp

it, for some reason, wont let me boot to a cd...

i'll put the cd in, reboot, select to boot from CD and it just takes me to the grub command line...

i got it to boot from a ms dos prompt boot disk i just made... i dont know if that could help or what i can do from here.. anyone else..?

ok i finally got it to boot from my windows disk, after trying fixmbr in the recovery console, i restarted and now i get "error loading operating system"


so im going to keep screwing around with this.. if anyone else has even a slight tip for me, please help.

In a situation like this, probably better to just format the entire drive. Can your boot floppy read ur ntfs partition? Probably. Get all ur important docs off the hd then use a boot floppy to completlye errase the hard disk. Nice, shiny, new hard disk. If all teh bytes on the disk are 0, it will probably let you boot to cd.

You could try from a command line after you boot via your floppy or a win98 cd

A:/fdisk /mbr

and that should bring everything back to normal

you could also burn a new set of cds to install from when your error happend to me that's what I did to get it working again. It was due to a corrupt CD I was trying to install from