hi all, thank you for all the replies - I did what rcrsn51 suggested before his second lengthy reply of "yes" ;-) and it seemed to do the job for me. At worst I'd have just had to format my hard drive and re-install windows, but what rcrsn51 suggested worked, and I hope it won't cause me p...

anyone help? or suggest where I can get help? I'll summarise my first post: I believe Grub4dos made a backup of my old master boot record. I now want to restore that original master boot record (abandoning grub and puppy hard drive installation). For some reason (unknown to me), I can't use the wind...

ms-sys --mbr --write /dev/sda thanks for the reply, but I wonder if you could kindly elaborate on what you've typed above, or if someone else could. I need clear step by step instructions to try to get my old windows installed mbr back. If not already obvious, I best state now that I'm a complete n...

Hi all, I installed Lucid Puppy on my E drive after formatted it to ext2, leaving winXP on my C drive. I also installed Grub4dos as a bootloader. When installing Grub4dos, it said it there was an option to restore the original MBR. At the time I stupidly didn't write down the thing it told me to do ...