[NTLUG:Discuss] grub loader messing with my head

[David Evans]

Okay here is a good one.
fellow employee asked me to load suse 9.1 onto a usb external hd so he 
would not have ot do anything to his xp home install. He has a compaq 
presario 2100 laptop.

So I said yea we can do that..
So the install goes well and everything works except his laptop will not 
boot unless the usb external drive is hooked up to the computer. 
Apparently suse changed the location of his master boot record and i 
need to change it back so windowos will boot off of itself again without 
the external hd.

is this making sense to anyone.

all of his windows is still intact but when I try to boot without the 
usb drive hooked to it the boot all the screen displays is


grub

help
Has anybody done this like and wished they hadn't is so please help.