Problem with OS booting, Maybe MBR?

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digsy

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Hey, I'm just looking for some help with a problem I have regarding booting to my os. I've had this problem before so I'm pretty sure I know what it is, I just forgot how to fix it. Anyway without futhur ado:

I refomatted my comp and installed XP on my computer, but it wouldnt detect my internet connection, a problem recognising the router I think, so I threw in a live CD for ubuntu, and that worked with my connection, so i uninstalled windows and installed linux. Now after doing this i realised I'm not very good with linux so I wanted to go back to Xp, unfourtunatly after reformatting again and reinstalling It wont continue with the setup after rebooting, the errors is something like "problem loading operating system". So I reckon this is my master boot record telling my computer to boot to linux instead or windows, I've had this happen before, unfortunatly I forgot how to fix it. So I tried resetting the CMOS to reset the MBR, but well ... I guess that was probably a long shot. >_<.

Anyway, to cut a long story short how do I, and do I want to, reset my MBR.

Thank in advance for any help you can give me.

- Digsy
 
First of all clearing the cmos won't help with information stored on the hard drive. The bios programs hardware devices. So you want to remove Linux in one shot? Use a Linux partitioning tool to remove a Linux partition is the simple formula offered by GPart 0.1h found at http://tucows.com/preview/8292

The download there is an iso image ready to burned onto a cd-r and made into a bootable cd. GPart 0.1h is the Windows friendly version of GParted or the Gnome Partition Editor. Once you boot with that all hard drives and partitions on them are shown by a drop down menu on the upper right side of the screen.

The explorer bar has the new, delete, apply buttons to make this a simple tool to use. Once you highlight the partition on the primary drive usually seen as Drive A or #1 simply click on the delete and then apply buttons to see that deleted. Then boot with the XP installation cd for the rest.
 
Forget gpart. It's useless period unless you are trying to save information on a partition or trying to detect what kind of partition it is.

Go back into the install of the Linux to the point where you delete all partitions. Get rid of them so the disk is blank. Then go back into XP and try again.
 
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