Different BIOS boot interactions? Perhaps the laptop got it figured out and the PC didn't

wow something vary starange just happend...

I got linux to install on a 80GB IDE drive i put in...

when it came to the boot option screen where you select witch OS ou want to load it did show windows so i thought i lost every thing, even in linux it did see the drives...

but there was one odd ball boot option in the list it said "Linux-Other" so i tride it... and what do you kow windows XP start to boot.. WTF :?

all well at lest i didn't loss anthing. but im backing every thing up right not to DVD'* and exturnal HD'*

Thought so. Yeah, Linux reloaded your MBR with its own boot loader. You can run the win XP recovery CD and restore the MBR using a recovery console command, or you can install a boot manager program like BootItNG (www.terabyteunlimited.com). I love BootIT, lets you change your partition table on the fly