[donkey]

The plan was to dual boot win 2k and Mandrake 9.2 The installation went smoothly through windows and linux until the final reboot when I got the 'Disk Boot Failure' message. I have reformatted and reinstalled several times, and am now running just win 2k (booted off the system disk) The problem is this: the boot sector and the mbr are corrupted. The reason I'm posting this here rather than on the windows board is that I have no idea where this problem originated. I ran fixboot and fixmbr on the windows rescue console without any luck, and was told that the boot sector contained a foreign or unknown system. Something evil lurks in the boot sector and I've run out of ideas(and patience)

[liviu]

To fix the problem you gotta run
fdisk /mbr
Feel free to learn from other's experience on this forumon this forum .

To learn more about doing dual boot you can read here
or maybe here .

HTH, liviu

[utanja]

i have had same problem in past....and c:>fdisk/mbr always solve problem...but make sure you have a Linux boot disk...to get back to linux