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Ya know, something you may want to consider, if you have the dual boot screen with:
Linux
LinuxFs..something something
FailSafe
Windows
Floppy
then you may have a functional dual boot system. If when hitting Linux you don't drop into a GUI called KDE or Gnome then I agree you should junk it. When you installed it you probably went with the defaults which for all practical purposes overlays the MBR. Normally, you'd select boot from the top of one of the linux partitions (which must start at <8GB v <32GB depending on how sophisticated Mandrake is). But if you want to reset the MBR then standard procedure is, and I quote from SuSE man pages (for XP):
Boot from the Windows XP CD and press the 'R' key during the setup to start the Recovery Console. Select your Windows XP installation from the list and enter the administrator password. At the input prompt , enter the command FIXMBR and confirm the security query with y. Then reboot the computer with 'exit'.
After that you're on your own.
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