Peter,
Relax a bit. I believe you can recover with a bit of work.
I think that installing Mandrake overwrote your Master Boot
Record which previously loaded your MS OS. You need to
recover from this by configuring your system to dual or
multiply boot.
You can buy your way out of your trouble by purchasing
products such as System Commander, or Partition Magic.
Alternatively, you can work your way out of trouble by using
freeware equivalents. Perhaps your best freeware equivalent
is LiLo which is part of your Mandrake distro.
I don't know enough about Lilo yet to help you precisely,
but you can start your reading by looking for the relevant
HowTo docs in /usr/doc, or find your HowTos by running
"locate howto".
The lilo howtos are relevant, as are some of the dual and
triple boot howtos.
After you read some of these, the man pages might be
helpful. Try
apropos lilo
man lilo
man lilo.conf.
HTH.
John
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