Hello,
Sorry for what may be a silly question. I have mepis lite running on an old computer, that I have set up to dual boot with win98. A friend recently gave me an old computer which however has more modern hardware (pent III - sad to say this is more modern than what I currently have).

I was intending to use a Linux distro burned to CDROM as an aid to diagnosing a problem I've been having with another PC running WinXP. I chose Mepis and right now I'm wishing I hadn't.

Having used my installed o/s (WinXP Home) to burn the CDROM using my LG 4020B multi drive, I ran it first to get familiar with it (using the same drive). It installed, booted-up and ran OK. So I ended the session by logging-off. Since then (yesterday) that PC no longer finds any hard drive, so I can't boot back into Windows. The BIOS still sees the hard drive and the drive's LED shows plenty of activity - but WinXP won't boot. Attempts to reinstall WinXP from the CDROM abort automatically when Setup finds no hard drive. It won't even load the Recovery Console app which is on the WinXP CDROM, so I've no way of repairing the MBR.