3) If you have multiple disks (logical or physical) each with windows on it, you can modify the boot.ini and ntldr (NT loader) to set which gets booted to. I don't recommend playing around with it, read up first.--that's the information i'd like --the linux cd's aren't booting properly with the hardwarealso i'm not able to modify those files on the bad windowsi suppose i could boot to dos, and run a program to access the ntfs files and modify there, if i knew what to modify it too
Bah...doing a repair on the hard drive is a waste of time IMO. What you should really do is get ahold of a copy of Norton Ghost, and ghost the image of the hard drive onto a spare HD/partition if you have one. That way you can reformat the drive, reinstall all of your OS and goodies and shit, and then install NG on the new installation and read your old drive image like a ZIP/RAR file and copy/extract data out of it. That seems like the only logical thing to do, in my opinion any how.