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I installed Mandriva Linux on one partition, and then installed a Windows XP on another. Then I tinkered with Partition Magic, as I wanted to install Mac OS X86 on another partition. I accidently chose the Linux partition as the default boot partition (which apparently, the Master Boot Record is broken after I installed Windows).

So now, the Linux won’t boot, keep giving me error messege. And I don’t know how to boot to my Windows partition. Any help?

I had windows xp and linux(mandriva). But i got my primary partition formatted as it got badly affected by viruses, trojans, spams……. however i did not install windows immediately, i used linux for a few days and thereafter i could not install xp. Though the i can boot from the xp cd, the process stops at initial step itself. I thought at first that my hard disk might have got developed some bad sectors, but after i consulted the service provider i got to that it is a software problem arised as i formatted primary partition and left it so with linux on my hard disk. Now i wish to format the whole hard disk deleting all the partitions including the linux partition. I tried it with partition magic but i ended up with unformatted linux boot partition using my friends healthy hard disk which has only xp.
Now can anyone send a software/link/solution which can completely format deleting all the partitions of a harddisk without affecting the data in the second harddisk?

i recently copied a certain file to the desktop of opensuse 10.3.I was logged in as root.Then after a botched up installation my computer doesnt boot into opensuse.i want to know where the folder is located to copy it to win xp. im currently using win xp with explore2fs-1.07.i can see the files in the linux partition,but can anyone tell me were exactly the desktop files for the “root” user are located.i would really appreciate it if somebody coul help me out

I have SuSE Linux 10.1 installed along with Windows. Now I want to uninstall it. So can anyone tell me how i can uninstall it? I tried using the partitioner to delete all the partitions but the linux partition just like it is explained in the manual at http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:How_to_Uninstall_Linux but its not working. I am getting an error message when I press the “Apply” button in the partitioner. So any other way to uninstall it? I cant use the Linux CD cause my CD Drive is not working.
Didn’t I mention that my CD-Drive is not working?