Comment 27 for bug 571893

I have the same problem -- the misleading update tricked me into installing grub into the partitions.
This is on a new system that has only windows xp home and a recovery partition.
ultimatebootcd has a utliity called GUJIN which shows you the bootloaders -- both say GRUB
I have tried to boot from a windows XP CD to get into a recovery console to no avail!!!! (windows apparently thinks there is a virus upon seeing GRUB2)
Tried another utility MBRWORK to reset the MBR to normal but GUJIN still reports GRUB for both partitions
Not sure if it doesn't work or Grub2 installs itself more deeply in ways I have yet figured out!!!
I have already also tried the TestDisk program to reverse the damage...in my case it said the backup one was bad and only allowed for REBUILD -- so I tried that..it now reports them as the same -- the same WRONG one
I have no way to even run the recovery partition to reinstall XP and I cannot run XP recovery console .... new systems come without backup disks or installers as well.

This is a MAJOR problem.....yes the updater was apparently talking about disks but it gave a selection for all the existing partitions which was very misleading and ultimately lead to the damage.

Any help is much appreciated. Thanks!!!