I needed to free up some space for my upcoming prep for the MCSE 2003 upgrade tests (more on that in another post). I have an evaluation copy of Windows Server 2003 that came with the study guide I will be working from and wanted to setup some VMs on my laptop. I need the space for the VMs, so I decided I would remove my Fedora Core 6 partitions while I prepare for the upgrade tests.
Before I did that I wanted to set the MBR back to the Windows loader instead of GRUB. Easy enough I figured as I set about to boot off an XP CD yesterday morning to use the recovery console and fixmbr to take care of that. So I boot off the XP disk and was met with a Blue Screen regarding pci.sys before I even made it to the Welcome to Setup screen. Hoping that was a just a fluke, I tried again. Same thing.
Some brief searching shows that I need to use an XP disk with Service Pack 2 integrated. So after scrounging one of those up I was able to boot to the Welcome to Setup screen with no issues. Of course then, the XP installer could not see my SATA disks...
The laptop I am working on has not floppy drive to use the F6 option with. So after a bit of time I built up an XP disk with SP2 integrated and the SATA controller drivers slipped in as well. Success! GRUB is gone and the Linux partitions have been reclaimed.
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