I have a bit of a screwed up situation going on here. I was running a dual system with Mandrake 10 and Windows XP Home. I had Windows on the C:/ drive and Mandrake on my secondary harddrive. I say was because a few days ago my secondary harddrive crashed (loud crunching noise followed by general failure to be harddrivelike anymore) and left me without linux or the bootloader. That alone wouldn't be such a big problem but since the bootloader was on the harddrive that crashed, my windows harddrive will no longer boot either (it says grub harddrive error or something of that sort). I don't have a windows xp cd because my computer came with one of those damned segments on the harddrive for "recovery" (which I can't even access anyway because it won't boot past the bootloader). I installed a floppy drive in the system just for this and got an I/O error when I tried to run the xp 6 disc boot set. I am pretty much all out of ideas here. Any help you guys could give me would be greatly appreciated.
