I was chatting with a friend the other day about recovering the MBR on one of my Windows systems. He is a seasoned admin and recommended the following:
- Boot from the Windows XP CD (the UBC may also work) and select the recovery console.
- Once the recovery console comes up you can run fixmbr to fix up the master boot record.
- Reboot.
This is a pretty simple fix and one I want to note for future use. I don't always use Windows, but when I do I like to have fixes for blue screens and MBR troubles. :)