How do I restore the Windows XP Bootloader?!

[rickrolled]

I have two hard drives. I have Windows XP on one and Windows 7 on another one. I used dd (a linux low level utility) to backup the Windows XP bootloader. Then, I installed Windows 7 to the other hard drive. It installed fine, but it put the Windows 7 boot manager on the XP hard drive (I did NOT want this). I used dd to copy the backed up XP bootloader back to the hard drive using the following command:

"sudo dd if=XPbootloader.img of=/dev/sda bs=446 count=1"

Then I unhooked the Windows 7 drive and rebooted. The windows 7 boot manager is still on the XP drive even though I am certain I overwrote the boot loader area of the hard drive. I do not want any options of OSes on this drive, I want it to boot straight to XP. How do I fix this? I do not have the XP CD anymore..

[rickrolled]

I figured it out.

If you have XP on a separate drive and you install Windows 7, and the XP hard drive now has the boot menu you can remove it by doing the following:

boot the computer up running another operating system (a Linux Live CD perhaps). Find boot.BAK, bootmgr, and BOOTSECT.BAK and delete these files from the file system. Now if you reboot and boot from your XP hard drive the boot manager will be gone but you can still boot into XP. It seems like the XP, Vista and 7 bootloader may be the same, but XP's boot.ini communicates to it, while those three files tell the bootloader what to do in Vista and 7. Also, it seems like those three files override XP's boot.ini if they are in the same folder together

[bludgard]

'Preciate ya rickrolled.

I may need this info in the future.

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[optiplex]

it is very difficult position.