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How to create MBR for booting into Windows

I had a dual-booting laptop with Linux Mint and Windows XP on it. After deleting the Linux Mint partitions, it failed to boot into XP because grub can no longer find the MBR. This was the error message:

error: no such partition
grub rescue>

Solution:

Boot into SystemRescueCD and run this command to create a new MBR:

lilo -M /dev/sda mbr

Note: My XP resides in /dev/sda.