Master Boot Record Help

[Canis]

I've got a bit of a problem. I'm new to Linux, dual booting, partitioning, everything and but way to eger to discover things myself.

The partitioning tool in Linuc Mandriva kinda messedup my HDD, or I did. I recovered all my data and copied it to another drive. Now i wanna reinstall Windows and Linux, but the computer won't boot from the cd. I've set the cdrom as first boot option and even disabled the hdd option, but it still won't boot from the cd. The computer skips and loads the Linux bootloader grub and this doesn't work because neither Windows nor Linux is installed on the disk anymore. I formatted the disk using windows' disk management. Grub presents me with some or other command line interface that I have no idea of how to use with a heading "minimal bash editing". Can I erase the MBR on the drive or any other help.

I have a P4S533 Asus mother board and WD 120 HDD.

[garp]

The way I fixed that was using a windows 98 boot disk and typing fdisk/mbr

Edit: This should erase the MBR

You can get a win98 boot disk from here http://www.bootdisk.com/