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Need major help with booting!

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KillerCharlie

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My main hdd was partitioned into a windows partition and a linux partition. I decided to delete the linux partition and merge it into the windows partition using partition magic. It got most of the way through then had an error. When I rebooted I couldn't get into Windows because it tried using Grub (and linux no longer exists). Hopefully it didn't damage my windows files (I have some stuff I need to recover).

I found an old 3gb hdd with an old xp installation on it. I put it in and got it to work, but it instantly got hammered by viruses and it's pretty useless now. I could access some of my files on the other drive, but some of them wouldn't open and some I couldn't get to because I believe they were on a passworded account. So now I'm using a ubuntu boot cd.

Does anyone know how to make it so it boots to windows?

I tried fixing the installation but that didn't help. Would reinstalling windows on the drive fix it but not delete the files? I'm hesitant to do that...
 
You need to boot into a command prompt via a Rescue Disk or something.

Once you are at the command prompt type "fixmbr" without the quotes.

All that happened was after getting rid of linux your master boot record got hosed as well. No biggie, you dont even have to reinstall.

-Kevin
 
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