Well here is the thing.
Last night I disassembled my PC and reconfigured the motherboard to run my processor at the right speed.
Unfortunately I went into windows first, because I knew how that would react to a change. I did not do what I thought, it altered my partitioning and reinstalled IE.
WTF.
So I went into Linux and got a Kernel panic.
I know not enough about linux, but I tried Recreating the MBR, and the resuce program crashed out with an abnormal exit.
Tried a few other things like reinstalling drivers. I tried to update through the install, and got 'whoops there is no Root partition'. Diskdrake confirmed this. The partitons were there but unlabelled.
So I ended up reinstalling the software (this is mandrake). I did an exact same install as I did last time.
What the hell it started up with most of my old settings. Even had the Peanut Linux Iso I had downloaded.
Not sure what happened? So if it's a last resort you could try something similar.
