[MCSTechie]

I installed Linux Mandriva One by using the newly made disc (from an iso). I did not BOOT to install it, i just installed from windows itself, using the wizard. When it asked which partition i selected "Install on the same partition in windows" or whatever it says in that option to use the SAME PARTITION. So I restart the computer and it boots into Mandriva, but does not provide an option to boot to XP. Any suggestions?

[saikee]

Sound like you have overwritten the Windows partition with Mandriva.

Linux and Windows are two different operating systems with two different filing structures and must be installed in different partitions.

To install Mandriva in a Windows partition means you have given the "green light" to Mandriva to overwrite the existing Windows system, presumably you only want one operating system and didn't want to bother with resizing the Windows partition to create hard disk space for the Mandriva.

I am sure Mandriva had asked you repeatedly some thing like "Are you sure?" My prediction is you can kiss your XP good bye.

To show what you have got now is to click terminal in Mandriva and issue these commands

su
fdisk -l

If your Windows XP is still there it will show up as a partition with Type ID 7, meaning it is a ntfs partition. Linux only uses Type ID 83 and 82 partition. The latter is for swap.