i have a problem after uninstalling linux. This is what i did, 2 separate hard disks (10Gb) one had xp installed alrady, on the other disk i decided to install red hat 9 on it. later i decided to delete this partition. What i understand is when i installed linux , the grub became the mbr and by deleting the linux disk, I have tampered with the MBR, pls correct me if i am wrong, so that i can understand it better. now when i boot up, all i see is the grub prompt and not able to access my XP disk (not that i really want to, except to retrieve some data) Any suggestion why did this happen, can be avoided next time, repaired for time being. Thanks in advance. simon

just try this Boot ur sytem with some boot floppy.In command prompt type the following command a:/>fdisk/mbr or fdisk\mbr which will uninstall the bootloader.after this u can normally boot into winxp

fdisk /mbr will work OK for windoze 95/98/me but for 2000 and XP you needs to boot off the installation CD, go to the recovery console and use the command fixmbr. There is also a command called fixboot but not being a windoze user I don't know what it does.