You shouldn't need to recover the bootrecord, in fact you should be able to set grub up to boot your XP partition, not sure how you have your partiation table layed out (give us an fdisk -l /dev/hda).
Unfortunately, the problem that Vincent is having (and I have had in the past) is that he accidently wrote grub to (hd0,0) instead of (hd0).
To the best of my knowledge, the windows bootloader is on hd0,0 (the windows mbr simply boots the first primary partition with the boot flag set, usually hd0,0)
Whether he was to reinstall grup properly or not, this leaves an unbootable windows partition. Usually windows isnt kept around purely for bragging rights, so he probably wants to fix it ;)
(AFAIK you can't install XP on any partition higher than 0 anyway)
you can with any of the NT-based windows versions, iirc, and at the very least with xp.
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Chris I
The sheep died in the wool.
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