Removing Linux on a Dual Boot station

[vut]

Dear Experts,

I am trying to uninstall Linux out of a dual boot on a laptop that has Linux and Win XP with Linux being the primary boot, because Linux is the primary boot I am “scared” of running in to a situation where I am not able to get Win booting, as I do not have a Win XP boot disk with me.

Can someone out there please advice me on the procedure to follow to avoid the above-described scenario.

Thank you,
vut

 

[smah]

There are a couple of possibilities. What are you using for a boot loader - grub or lilo?

 

[vut]

Smah,

I am using grug.

Thanx,
Vut

 

[LawnBoy]

Should you ever lose the boot partition for DOS/Win,
fdisk /mbr
will rewrite it for you.

 

[smah]

Basically that's it.

Boot with your XP cd and enter the Recovery Console. Then use the command fixmbr. Then when you reboot (to the hard drive) windows will load and you can use windows disk management to delete the linux partition.