There's hundreds of reasons why you would need to repair your master boot
record: Installed Linux, dual booting with any OS, corruption are a few of the
biggest reasons you'd have made changes to your MBR. How do you restore it to
your original Windows XP one you ask?
In these instructions I'm using the operating system is on hard disk 0 AKA drive
C.
Furthermore this guides assumes that your operating system is on Harddisk 0,
drive C:\)
First of all
Windows XP Recovery Console Installation Guide You'll have to have it
installed ;)
When you reboot make sure that you select the recovery Console. If it's not
installed and you can't get into windows to install it then you'll have to boot
to your windows XP CD to get into the Recovery Console.
- When the Recovery Console prompts you or which system you want to start
type 1 and hit enter.
- After the Console has finished loading type in the following:
fixmbr /device/harddisk0
- You'll see some warnings and just type y which answers yes to all of the
prompts
- After that you can restart and you're back to using the default MS boot
loader, booting to the right hard disk now.
