First, the good news. I now have my Fujitsu Lifebook S6510 set up to quad-boot XP/Ubuntu/openSuSE/Mandriva! That's certainly worth a few giggles. More importantly, it will make it a lot easier for me ...
The source of most of the unbootable situations on Windows is caused by a misconfiguration or even corrupted Boot Configuration Data files, otherwise known as BCD. BCD contains boot configuration ...