What I have done in similar situations is boot to a Win98 floppy or cdrom and run: fdisk /mbr This should restore your windows bootloader to how it was before grub/lilo was installed. You don't need grub/lilo back on there until after you have reinstalled linux, and the reinstall process will take care of that for you. - Justin On 8/25/06, queasyfish <queasyfish at yahoo.com> wrote: > Hello; > > Linux newbie/ fairly skilled Windows user - looking for some help. > > I've created a dual boot (Win XP/Suse 10.1) on my laptop. After several > problems and some web searching, it seems that the general consensus is > that 10.1 is perhaps not the best version. So I DL'd a Suse 10.0 ISO, > burned the DVD, put it in the drive and rebooted. Came up to the bootloader > as usual but did not offer to boot from the media in the drive. > > So I decided to try starting "fresh", and not really thinking about it too > hard: I went into Windows and (though My Computer-Manage-Disc Managment) > deleted the two sub-partitions on the Linux partition - leaving the Windows > partition and a single "other" partition where Linux was/is. > > When I rebooted, the bootloader stops with an "error 22" and will not boot > into anything (I was assuming that it would boot into Windows). Anyway, > this is my issue - how to boot into windows/fix the bootloader. Any help > would be appreciated. > > Thanks in advance > John > queasyfish at yahoo.com