Hello together, I have a problem with a notebook I was experimenting with. It was dualboot Win XP pro and Redhat linux, and I wanted to test how to get rid of the redhat system to make all space available to XP. (I`ve nothing against redhat, just a test because disk space not too big chosen for XP, 20 GB). So there was GRUB, and normally fixmbr works to get back to original bootloading. But not this time. I can boot from CD to Recovery console, but nothing else. boot.ini looks like this: [boot loader] timeout=30 default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS [operating systems] multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="DOS" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect dont ask me where the DOS entry comes from. the rest looks quite fine for me, but I am unexperienced here. I can see my hard drive, a boot with redhat showed the partitions (4, 1 for XP, hd0 and the old 3 from redhat. first is ntfs, others fat32 and swap) but cant write a new bootloader with message error 40 and so not boot completely. Anybody an idea how to get the system booting again? Would be nice without datalost, but not necessary, just for training. Hope somebody can help me. greets chris