I think i killed the MBR

[travisisgood]

So I've managed to screw up the MBR on my computer and now i can't get XP to load. Tiger 10.4.8 still loads though (if i boot from my CD drive with the installer disk in it). I don't want to have to format the part of my drive with XP on it for obvious reasons but I can't figure out how to fix it. Is there a way to fix it, or can anyone at least tell me what i did wrong?

In cases anyone wants to know, im using an Asus motherboard P5LD2-VM, with a pentium D 945 processor, with 2 Gigs of ram, and a Radeon X1300 graphics card.

[Synaesthesia]

So you can't boot Mac OS only with the install disk, not without and windows xp doesn't work? Through darwin bootloader?

 

I'm no expert, but you can try booting with a Gparted live cd, or ubuntu, which has Gparted on. There's also UBCD, which is great, but there was another partition/boot manager live cd that was purported to be even better...Can't remember what it was called, something like Magic partition or whatever...

[travisisgood]

I managed to fix, it...ish (windows is still a bit screwey) i had to repair windows, as well as reformat a third partition i made (somehow) without any formatting. now i jsut have to fix acronis because now it won't recognise that i have any parrtitions even though i do. is there any danger in uninstalling it and then reinstalling it right after, or will it do something like make me restart after uninstall which will probably screw things up again?