My other omputer is skrewed up :S

Hey everyone...i have not been on here in ages :P The reason i am making this thread is because my other computer is all skrewed up :S I have been trying to figure out what is wrong...i think i got a virus that reformated my hard drive :o but the thing is i have a Windows XP disk and a partision disk and a Linux disk and the computer will not read them at boot :S If anyone can help me it would be much apprecated :D oh btw i was duel booting on that system and i just cant get in to it :S If anyone has an idea why it is not working please help me. Sorry if i posted this in the wrong thread...the forum has been changed since i last logged in last summer :S

Edit: Shoot i see there is a HELP! forum section :S I should have posted it there...well whatever...please help everyone

there may be a setting in the BIOS setup that will tell the computer which drives to check and boot from. i'd check that. beyond that, i have no idea.

Were you dual booting or parallel booting?

Dual - one at a time
Parallel - simultaneously

If you were parallel booting and just one of them died it can prevent both of them from booting.

The only other thing that I can think of, besides the BIOS is that your boot sector became corrupt. Here's what I would do: Find a Linux Live CD on the internet on your good computer and try to boot the other computer with that. If that boots then you can check out the hard drives and see what is going on, if it doesn't boot then your motherboard is shot.