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stoopid_noob
January 5th, 2009, 04:21 PM
Hello,

The other night I made a stupid mistake. In short I had two USB keys, one with SUPER GRUB on it and the other with Windows XP. I accidentally formatted the key that SUPER GRUB disk was on after I just removed the Ubuntu partition using it.

I am now stuck to where Grub 1.5 does not see an OS, which is correct, and there is no way to get around it. Nor do I have a USB key version of SUPER GRUB.

Take note that this is on a Acer Aspire One machine with no CD or floppy.

I would like to remove grub completely and put WindowsXPSP3 back on, I need my software compatibility back!

What are my options? Please help. :confused::confused:

caljohnsmith
January 5th, 2009, 06:45 PM
How about booting your Windows USB stick, go to the recovery console and run:

fixmbr
That should enable you to boot directly into Windows. Let me know how that goes or if you run into problems.