Quote Originally Posted by toffer
Well, I tried that... that's my problem ->

"Now I'd like get winxp pro running on my machine... so go through setup & the machine reboots... when it restarts after the initial setup, it just quits. It tells me "press a key to boot from cd rom". If I just let it go, grub eventually comes up but does nothing. I've tried booting into recovery mode & using fixmbr with no success." I can't get xp to install... goes through the usual set up, then when it reboots, it won't continue the install. It looks for grub (and I've used fixmbr in repair mode on it successfully before, else I couldn't have installed win2k). It just doesn't make any sense.
If you ran the XP setup from the disk and CHOSE to format the entire disk, it should have overwritten the bootloader. That is if you formatted all the partitions on the drive.

Make sure you have formatted them all, and then try the Xp installation again,

Using the procedure below:
http://www.winsupersite.com/showcase...p_sg_clean.asp