The short version is that you simply need to reinstall the Microsoft bootloader which you can do from the Windows installation CD. I have not touched XP in a few years now, but I remember correctly, when you boot the installation CD you need to select the recovery console option, then type the commands fixmbr and fixboot in the DOS-like command prompt . After that eject the CD and reboot.
What has happened is that you removed the Linux partition which held the information that grub uses to boot the currently installed operating systems. Windows has a bootloader that does not recognize other operating systems, so when you install Linux, Grub (which is aware of many different operating systems) typically replaces whatever bootloader is installed (like the Highlander, there can be only one). If this PC came with a recovery disk and not an actual Windows disk, you may need to contact the manufacturer, though XP is long out of support from even Microsoft, so you may need to borrow an XP CD from someone. I would avoid downloading one from the Internet since they typically have malware infections. Hth, On Tue, Feb 16, 2016 at 4:43 PM, TekBudda <tekbu...@gmail.com> wrote: > This was a dual-boot Windows XP 7 Xubuntu workstation & recently while in > the XP partition I was viewing the drives & when I clicked on the Linux > partition it disappeared. I was looking to see how much space I could get > back for the Windows partition when this happened. > > This happened once before on another machine, but it wasn't a huge deal as > I just re-imaged it. > > Unfortunately I didn't get a chance to look at it deeper & while doing a > renovation the power got turned off & the machine shut down. > > When it boots up now it shows a grub Rescue prompt & when I do an ls I get > the following: > > (hd0) (hd0,msdos5) (hd0,msdos1) (fd0) > > I have been looking online & all I have found so far is how to get it back > into Ubuntu. But as Ubuntu doesn't exist anymore this doesn't help me. I > haven't applied any commands as I don't want to mess it up. > > Right now my goal is to recover the Windows XP Partition which houses my > Quicken software. I do have the Quicken files on a DropBox share & > hopefully they were synched at the time, but I won't know unless I get back > in there. > > Any ideas? > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > clug-talk@clug.ca > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying >
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