SuSE: How to safely restore a windows boot loader to MBR

Hi,

I had installed SuSE 9.0 on a laptop which originally had Windows XP and
am dual booting with GRUB on MBR. I am presuming that SUSE installer had
just moved the windows boot loader to the Windows (NTFS) partition. I
would like to remove SuSE installation. Can I just boot into SuSE and
use 'Restore MBR from hard disk' under 'Reset' dropdown in Yast Boot
Loader Set up to do that safely? According to the user manual, the MBR
saved on the hard disk will be written back when I do that. Or do I need
to use Windows XP install disk to do it?

TIA

On Sun, 01 Jan 2006 16:29:10 -0500, R Kannan <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

> According to the user manual, the MBR
>saved on the hard disk will be written back when I do that. Or do I need
>to use Windows XP install disk to do it?

I'd do a windows repair under windows:
boot windows install -> repair (recovery?) console -> fixmbr

If you like dos, try http://www.winimage.com/bootpart.htm, it knows
how to play with the windows boot loader as well.

Grant.

Grant wrote:

> On Sun, 01 Jan 2006 16:29:10 -0500, R Kannan
> <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>
>> According to the user manual, the MBR
>>saved on the hard disk will be written back when I do that. Or do I need
>>to use Windows XP install disk to do it?
>
> I'd do a windows repair under windows:
> boot windows install -> repair (recovery?) console -> fixmbr
>
> If you like dos, try http://www.winimage.com/bootpart.htm, it knows
> how to play with the windows boot loader as well.
>
> Grant.

also, 'fixboot' from the windows recovery.

On Sun, 01 Jan 2006 16:54:58 -0500, Ken K <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>Grant wrote:
>
>> On Sun, 01 Jan 2006 16:29:10 -0500, R Kannan
>> <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>>
>>> According to the user manual, the MBR
>>>saved on the hard disk will be written back when I do that. Or do I need
>>>to use Windows XP install disk to do it?
>>
>> I'd do a windows repair under windows:
>> boot windows install -> repair (recovery?) console -> fixmbr
....
>also, 'fixboot' from the windows recovery.

Thanks, couldn't think of the other one ) So I ref'd bootpart.

Grant.

In article <OcYtf.2247$CV.1720@dukeread03>,
Ken K <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>Grant wrote:
>
>> On Sun, 01 Jan 2006 16:29:10 -0500, R Kannan
>> <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>>
>>> According to the user manual, the MBR
>>>saved on the hard disk will be written back when I do that. Or do I need
>>>to use Windows XP install disk to do it?
>>
>> I'd do a windows repair under windows:
>> boot windows install -> repair (recovery?) console -> fixmbr
>>
>> If you like dos, try http://www.winimage.com/bootpart.htm, it knows
>> how to play with the windows boot loader as well.
>>
>> Grant.
>
>also, 'fixboot' from the windows recovery.


Does that require a WIndows CD?
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