Couple things,
One you can save the partition after uninstalling linux by running a boot disk found at the link below. It requires 4 floppies but will let you boot that disk..
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/r...eleaseid=42819

Once you run the boot disk,

you can boot from startup floppy disks or CD-ROM, choose repair option during setup, and run Recovery Console. When you are logged on, you can run FIXMBR command to fix MBR. To log in, you'll need your admin account and password and choose the partition number that you want to fix..

I had to do this myself recently as I removed redhat and am going to reinstall it.. so this works 100%.

Sorry you are having issues.

I'll pm you about fixing that CD you have now and we'll sort that out.

One other thing, if you want to ever reinstall linux and you don't want grub as your boot manager... install linux first, then install XP, and it should make XP the default boot and use the windows boot loader AFAIK.

The site below discusses bootloading options with Linux and windows XP:

http://www.icculus.org/~lucasw/Linux...otloading.html

Hope that helps you.