Dual boot to single boot problems

[excalibur313]

I had a dual boot system with linux on one hard drive and windows on the other. I was being careless and I deleted the linux harddrive which had the information about choosing the os upon bootup. So even though windows is still there even if i tell it to boot from the windows harddrive it doesn't work. How can I fix this so i can boot into windows again?
Thanks,
Stephen

 

[excalibur313]

Are there any suggestions?

 

[excalibur313]

Is there anyway I can just secure erase the hard drive from this point? I just want to be able to give it to someone else without worrying about them getting information.

 

[Basie]

Knoppix has a live CD that could probably help you do that

 

[duragezic]

Put in your XP cd and go to recovery mode then type 'fixmbr'. It might be 'fixmbr c:\'. After restart you should be loading windows on boot.