i cant boot into user mode
hello all
I've installed linux to dual boot with win xp pro and think from the very beginning i royally screwed things up.
You see i tried to install Mandrakelinux 10 onto my second drive (with all my pics and things i did not want to loose (ever) boohoo but when i went to partition the drive i hit the clear all button ,now i can't see the drive through windows,it not there,first question,did i erase all i had on there and is there a way to get this info back.
Next on the list,when finally got linux installed (i thought)and went to boot linux up but all i got was a blank screen ,so being me (impatient) i installed it again on my second drive using the KDE interface,but that still did not work soooooooooooo,i installed it on my windows drive ,partitioned the drive and installed .
I can now get a boot into screen but can only boot into root using x.
i gone through the install a few timeusing expert and setup the root user account and single user account but when i go to log into user the password cursor will not move when i type in the password so it keeps coming up with invalid password.
Did i screw this up big time ,is there any way to remove linux from my disks and start all over again without formating my drives.
If anyone can help i will be forever in your dept(OK not for ever but if i can ever help i will)
thanks
ps:the bootloger is set in the mbr.
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