installed leopard, lost windows, lost leopard

[dps27a]

hello,

 

I installed brazilmac leopard and was running fine (apart from the lack of drivers)

 

then i tried to reboot to windows xp by taking the dvd out and rebooting.

i realised darwin never had options for hard drives, just for the brazilmac dvd

 

so now i can only boot to leopard...

 

ive resorted to deleting leopard, installing windows xp in that partition and hopefully will be able to configure the booting options by installing something like grub...

 

i'm left with "Disk Failure Boot, Insert System CD" just after the BIOS information has scrolled.

if what im doing doesnt work, does anyone have any idea how i could get back into windows XP?

im guessing ive messed up something to do with the MBR or similar.

 

many thanks,

dan

[MiJKa]

If you're saying you've already installed windows back onto that partition and after the bios info scrolls, you get that message, it really isn't an MBR issue. Windows... well ALL Windows just write over the MBR. (Hence everyone saying that windows should always be the first native installation you do.)

 

If you're trying to boot to the Windows CD and it says "Disk Failure Boot, Insert System CD", then it's either a bios boot device order issue, or a scratched to death CD.

 

I can't imagine you're trying to boot onto a freshly formatted HDD.

 

Otherwise, I'm still confused as to what exactly happened. I doubt, if nothing else was changed, that system info would help, but a bit more info on exactly WHAT happened when you installed Leopard. I mean, step by step, what options you chose etc etc etc

 

More info would probably make answering you easier as well as more tempting to the people who COULD help.