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help..uninstalled linux and now can't get to xp

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Davegod75

Diamond Member
Here's the deal.

Had xp on my c drive
fedora on my d drive
was using grub to boot into either one..worked fine

took out the d drive;

ran fdisk /MBR because I thought i had to get rid of grub


now when i try to boot off my C drive (XP) i get

Missing operating system

what's the next step?
 
fdisk /mbr deletes the master boot record, not replace whatever with a windows one.


You need to run fixmbr from the recovery console from your boot up disk. here
 
well i had my xp drive had two partitions c (os) and d (data)

on the second drive was just linux

xp was installed first. linux was installed next and i told it to use the second drive only
 
also when i use the recovery console it think windows in on D; also the fixmbr command gives me a warning about a nonstandard master boot record. ..i haven't done anything yet because it says it can poetentially mess up all the parititions
 
well the map arc command tells me the os i want to boot is on

multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)

what to do now?
 
doh ..that didn't appear to work

when it boots up it give me the choice of

windowsxp
Microsoft Windows XP Professional


both option get past the black screen but freeze on the blue one.
 
too late.. .i just reinstalled windows...oh well. didn't loose my data partition though

so what is the proper way to get rid of grub and linux if you were dual booting so this doesn't happen again?
 
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