Well, answer the question for the excersise and for anyone who might need it in the future. However, I got impatient and just reformated and...
I do have a win98 boot disk and, as you suggested, booted to it and typed "fdisk /mbr". Then I booted the machine as normal and it goes into the...
I tried to find this problem using the search feature, but no luck. My system had some legacy hardware that Windows XP just couldn't deal with....
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