Repairing MBR on HD with bad clusters.

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Little bit more info, here goes..

I haven't been listening too closely when I have been booting lately, with all the fans. So I removed the cover of the box, only to hear the disk clicking like crazy before displaying the message I displayed above

Reboot and select proper boot device or insert boot media in selected boot device

Nihil, as i'm typing this, the machine is running chkdsk again, pointless probably, but i'm curious.

I do not think that this is recoverable.............if you PM me with a snail mail addy. I can send you a CD that might help

Windows XP Home SP3.............OK there are about 90 updates for hotfixes, but it will save a lot of time?

It will work just fine if you use the numbers off the sticker on your PC to install it.

Will do Nihil. And YES to answer your other question, the linux installation did NOT finish properly, which was the beginning of the end..