Graftark Tech enthusiast and all around nerd/geek.

Great! I totally screwed my PC.

Being the dumbass that I am, I went and killed my MBR (Master Boot Record) by trying to fix an install of Linux (Fedora Core 6) on my PC. I wanted to run a dual boot system, which is what happened.

I had it all set up GRUB worked fine except for the fact that when I selected the Windows installation it tried to boot the wrong partition. Easily remedied by editing the commandin GRUB. The issue I was having was that when FC6 loads up I see a few lines of the startup and then the screen would go dead. No more signal. I decided that it might be the ATI graphics card that was the culprit so I removed it from the system and hooked up an old monitor to the VGA port. Same thing happened, so I decided to try reinstalling FC6... this is where things take a turn for the worse.

Upon reboot, the GRUB loader doesn't do its normal thing instead it just gives me a GRUB command line. Oh yeah, I am nowhere near a very competent Linux guy. So I try figuring out the GRUB loader... I get it to load Linux, same loss of video signal occurs. Reboot try to figure out how to load Windows from GRUB to no avail. Crap... I then proceed to boot from the recovery cd to get myself to a DOS prompt. From there I did fixmbr in hopes of at least getting Windows to load correctly. Reboot, swear a lot as the boot record I fixed is now booting from the recovery partition.

Oh yeah fun times ahead... running chkdsk now because there ws another issue I had pop up that suggested I do so. Not good... PC still not fixed and I have to go to work soon.