HELP! - installing Ubuntu to USB stick "trashes" hard drive

[Richard Owlett]

Steve Flynn wrote:
> On 14 October 2011 16:59, Richard Owlett<rowlett at pcnetinc.com>  wrote:
>
>>
>> How do I rescue my system from Ubuntu which seems to be as monomaniacal as
>> Microsoft ever thought of being?
>> [There's a reason I was trying to escape M$ ;]
>>
>>
> Which version of Windows are you using? The command to overwrite the MBR of
> the hard-drive is different one differing versions of windows.
>
>

Thanks
WinXP Pro SP3