GRUB Loading 17 Error

[Maduraisiva]

I removed Linux and tried to load XP. But it shows "Grub Loading 17 error". I am not able to boot. Help me to solve this in a detailed manner.

[yancek]

Grub Error 17: Cannot mount selected partition

You need to give us more information. Did you initially have xp and Linux dual booting? What distribution of Linux? When you had your distro of Linux, I assume you used the Grub bootloader? Do you only have xp now? Do you have a Linux Live CD you can use to run commands to give us more information?

Without your partition information it will be hard to give accurate suggestions. You should be able to use your xp CD in Recovery option to overwrite master boot record to boot windows. I assume you have no other Linux distro installed and only wish to boot xp?

[Maduraisiva]

It is a brand new netbook came with Linpus Linux. I removed the Linux and tried to load XP via External Optical Drive. during that time I got the Error message "GRUB Loading 17 Error"
Currently it dont have any OS. I am not able to work in that netbook. I am interested to load XP.
Kindly help me out.

[Lakshmipathi]

I removed the Linux and tried to load XP via External Optical Drive

Have you changed the boot sequence (in motherboard) to use External optical drive (which has to set with higher priporty than Hard disk.)