OK, firstly, thank you to all those offering helpful advice.
Secondly, I apologise for the thread hijack, as it was bound to cause confusion, but as I was searching the forum for info, this is the threaed that seemed most relevant, so I thought tagging this onto the end might melp others in my situation.
I presume that as I can now only boot into Windows, that editing the Grub.conf file is no longer an option?
I don't really want to do anything too drastic as the system is basically stable as regards boot-up, it is just a bit annoying to have to wait while grub counts down.
I do have access to an ISO of Mandrake Move, so presumably I need to burn this to CD, boot into Linux and then edit Grub, is this correct?, and yes I have deleted the Linux partition and reassigned that space to other partitions, have I basically burnt my boat regarding editing Grub.conf?
I am running XP, so is the 98 disk really the one I want?
Thanks again.