MBR

[NoOp]

On 09/20/2010 11:56 AM, Norman Silverstone wrote:
> 
> 
>> > Just to finalise - removed the MBR and the problem disappeared.
>> >
>> Norman, please clarify how this was done. Will appreciate your letting 
>> us know. We can learn something too.
> 
> I am starting with 2 HDDs in my nachine one of which has Ubuntu 9.10,
> which I use and the other had at one time also had a version of Ubuntu
> installed on it and it was this HDD on which I wanted to install XP Pro.
> This is what I did:-
> 
>   1. Disconnect the Ubuntu drive
>   2. Boot an Ubuntu live CD

Open gparted and format/modify as necessary.

You could have done the same via the Ubuntu drive before you
disconnected it. :-)