This is a reeeeallly long rant
Here's what happened.
I'm trying to install OpenBSD and so I create 4 partitions, 1 each for /, /usr, /home and swap. Alright until now. I install OpenBSD and then boot, thinking that, as there's no boot manager, the comp will automatically boot into WinXP. Well, it didn't. I got the good old
Non System Disk or Disk Error
So I said alright, I 'll just boot from a floppy and see what's wrong. So, I boot from the floppy and say, C: and it says
Invalid Drive specification
So I say fdisk and 4. And this is what the f***ing thing (sorry! I'm just so pissed off) shows me:

1 Non Dos 1024 MB
2 Non Dos 1024 MB
3 Non Dos 1024 MB
4 Non Dos 514 MB
I have a 20GB hard disk of which the remaining was a 10gb windows drive and a 5 gb extended drive with all of the space occupied by a logical drive.
Apparently, windows won't recognize more than 4 primary partitions on a single drive. So it decided that I had a 3.5GB hard disk all of which was occupied by 4 Non Dos partitions. The 5 GB partition (D: under windows) had all of the stuff that I had dowloaded in the past THREE years! I cry just thinking about it . I had some old DOS utilities that are impossible to get anymore. Plus I had 2 GB of songs on that. All because some ******* at M$ was just too lazy to add support for more that 4 primary partitions, him. I lost 4GB of data including some great ebooks that I had downloaded from the net, all my bookmarks, so I don't even know the sites where I got them anymore, and all the code that I'd written in the last 2 years. I even lost the finished C-Programming Tutorial Chapter 3.
And what makes it even worse is that I was going to rent a CD-R drive and back up everything tomorrow!
Begging for Sympathy, Not Flames,
cgkanchi.