On Apr 27, 5:25*pm, John John - MVP wrote:
Carl wrote:
Hi Tim -

Back home. *Started the netbook with the Windows Recovery flash drive..

At the prompt typed FIXMBR C; and hit Enter
No text appeared, it simply brought me back to the prompt

You didn't do it right, FIXMBR uses the device name rather than the
drive letter, for example:

fixmbr \device\harddisk0

Note the double "dd" in the device name (hard+disk)

To get a list of devices use the MAP command.

If the syntax is correct you will get a warning message and you will be
prompted to confirm the action. *If you answer Y (yes) to confirm the
action you will receive a message stating that a new master boot record
was successfully written. *If the syntax is incorrect you will be
returned to the prompt without any message of any kind.

You can also run the FIXMBR command without specifying any device and
the MBR will be written to the boot device, here again you will receive
a warning message and be asked to confirm the action.

Fixmbr will surely dislodge the GRUB loader from the MBR, you just have
to use the proper syntax.

John

Hi John -

Thank you for weighing in.

The MAP command returned this:

? NTFS 6150MB \Device\Harddisk0\Partition1
C: NTFS 68653MB \Device\Harddisk0\Partition2
E: NTFS 39621MB \Device\Harddisk0\Partition3
D: FAT16 963MB \Device\Harddisk1\Partition1

What's the next step, gentlemen?

Many thanks, once again, for your time and patience.

Carl