by the way im no mbr expert there are so many variations with operating systems and packages that make it a nightmare to deal with i used fdisk.exe /mbr to fix the mbr on my windows drive i believe it to be an asus motherboard bios problem in my case it's an older p4s333 asus mother boerd with an intel 1.9 gb processor may be of help to someone having similar issues basically it s an older bernolli type of setup proceedure ive used for years with good results when dealing with multiple operating systems each o/s has it own pecularities when dealing with mbr and bootup
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