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i installed mandrake 10 community ed. to dual boot with win xp home (already installed). it changed my hardrive geometry from lba to chs wrote to the mbr and kept xp from booting. in attempting to restore mbr i produced a screen that simply said xp trick. i am unable to reinstall xp on harddrive. i checked harddrive with many utilities my harddrive has no bad spots per scandisk after i managed a win32 install. my memory checks out fine with memtest. win xp install hangs with usb probe so does white hat linux enterprise install (redhat clone) also cannot install gentoo hangs on usb probe. can only install mandrake 9.2 and 10 on harddrive even mandrake 9.1 hangs on install attempt. have used microsoft fdisk, fdisk from linux and several utilities. is my harddisk ruined? what can i use to repair it? i'd like the freedom to use a dual boot system, it is a shame that some indivuals make code that destroys other operating systems and now usefulness of harddrives, i'm sure these same indivuals would be quick to comdemn this if it happened to them. i'm willing to send original cds of community install of mandrake 10 that did damage to reputable company to determine code used. if anyone knows how to repair this problem please help me.