Vista dual boot issues

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I have a hard drive which i had dual booted between Windows XP and Mandriva Linux using the LILO boot loader. After recieving Vista i went into the Vista installer, removed the partitions containing vista then created a new partition for vista with this spare space.

The installation went through fine and Vista booted up with no problems. After installing a few drivers i removed the Vista DVD then rebooted the machine. When booting up instead of getting the dual boot screen i get "L 99 99 99 99" with the 99's repeating about 70 times.

If i put the Vista DVD in the machine it will boot up into XP or Vista fine.

I remember this L 99 99 99 99 problem when i mucked up LILO in Mandriva previously so i'm pretty sure it's to do with this, however now that ive removed the Mandriva partitions i can't get back into it to check LILO.

Any ideas?

P.S - I wasn't sure whether this thread should be made here or in the Linux forums so feel free to move it if necessary mods.

EDIT: I forgot to mention, i've gone into the Vista recovery section, checked for boot problems and it didn't fine any, and also tried repairing the MBR by going into a command prompt with the recovery console and typing BootRec.exe /fixmbr

 

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After getting irritated with this i've decided to format the disk and just boot Vista on it's own, however even after doing this im still getting exactly the same issue.

All i have is 1 raptor hard drive that i've formatted and installed vista on, a 160gb IDE hard drive that is formatted as well, and a 500gb sata drive that i formatted on NTFS to be used in windows which i've stored data on such as music, drivers and programs.

So even on a fresh install of Vista 32-bit without trying to dual boot it's still having problems, and i've no idea why.