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I currently have a Windows XP SP2. One day I got a 160GB (or somewhere around there) and thought I could have it partitioned with a Linux filesystem and with Ubuntu on it. But I stupidly found out later that I couldn't access the secondary HD from Windows XP. When I was in Windows XP I repartitioned the HD with NTFS and added a couple files to the secondary HD for a couple days as I RARELY restart my computer.

Rebooted the computer and got the GRUB error stating that it couldn't find the Linux partition and halted. I had files on the secondard HD and didn't want to install Ubuntu on the second HD again so I threw in a third harddrive which is probably like 3GB and REALLY old. I installed Ubuntu on that HD to overwrite GRUB to make it so that I can at least get into Windows XP.

I continue to select "Windows XP" from the GRUB boot loader, but would rather prefer not to have the boot loader anyway.. So I've looked around on how to remove GRUB by overwriting the MBR (Master Boot Record). I looked around and found many things saying that I have to reboot in MS-DOS and type "fdisk /mbr" although a handful of the tutorials said that WinXP and Win2000 don't have fdisk embedded into the MS-DOS command prompt... Any other suggestions? I've also heard to put in a recovery disk and go to prompt and use fdisk from there, although I don't know if it's on the disk.

You can use the Windows XP disk repair function to do it. I've had to do with once or twice myself. Just put the disk in and find repair mode, pretty straightforward. Once there, type fixmbr at the prompt. That should do it.

And the 'Windows XP disk repair function' is callable from what MS-DOS command?

Put the windows XP disk in your CD drive and reboot the computer. When it loads, you should just have to push the 'r' key to enter repair mode.