Thanks to everyone for their help, even the kranky penguin people.

Here is the situation

1. I went to NYC with my computer. It was stolen from a friend's
house

2. I have a spare computer. There was some problem with the Windows
98 OS and I had to partition it to install Windows XP on a new
partition. A few years later, I put Linux on a new partition and used
LiLO as the bootloader.

3. After my computer got stolen, I took my spare out of the closet and
started using it. To make space for new work, I used PartitionMagic to
remove the Linux partition

4. This seems to have wrecked the boot information

5. When I turned it on, I got a string of "99 99 99..."

6. I just ran fdisk /mbr and then when I rebooted chkdsk ran
automatically

When I boot the computer,
a. I get the Gateway Computer Screen
b. I get the black Windows XP Professional screen
c. I get the blue Windows XP screen which just hangs there



When I run fdisk to check the
The Partition information says:
Partition Status Type Volume Label MBytes System Usage
1 A NTFS 769
2%
2 EXT DOS 37386
98%

I tried to press F8 to get Directory Services Restore Mode

It knows that there is a
D:
E:
F:
C:
drive

The C: drive I think corresponds to the active Partition 1
The E: drive corresponds to the Windows XP desktop
The F: drive corresponds to the old Windows 98 desktop
The D: drive used to be the Linux partition but I PartitionMagic'ed it
into a generic NTFS partiton to make room for new data.

I had been able to find out the sizes of these drives yesterday, but I
can't look at it now because I no longer can use the software. (I am
at school and the computers won't allow me to run executables such as
rawrite for creating boot or diagnostic disks such as
http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/)

Any ideas?

Thanks,
Mitch