[PLUG] OOPS - Need to recovery back to virgin Windows XP Boot

Kirk Goins kgoins at aracnet.com
Sun Oct 4 22:19:06 UTC 2009


While trying a few things like trying Ubuntu desktop and server loaded 
on a spare HD in my system... the drive is no longer a spare :(

My ASUS motherboard appears NOT for follow the BIOS setup info and 
things are a little messy now.
I have IDE 320GB drive, a 320GB SATA drive and a SATA DVD in the system. 
The system was booting off of the SATA HD running XP. I had setup a dual 
boot to Ubuntu Desktop and then decided to look into Ubuntu Server.  I 
set the SATA HD to DISABLE. Set the IDE to the bootable HD after the DVD 
and NO 3rd option was spec'd.  I tried to bail ( unsuccessfully ) when I 
thought it was going to nuke the SATA drive...

Now If I unplug the IDE the system will not boot, even after I spec the 
SATA drive. With the SATA drive selected and the IDE plugged in I get 
'2' boot screens
#1 is to pick one of the Ubuntu Server versions or XP. Then pops up the 
selection for Ubuntu Desktop or XP.  I want to get back to just the SATA 
drive and XP. I was doing some reading and is it as simple as recovering 
the MBR using XP? AFTER I backup all my XP stuff?

Thanks




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