Hi there Hal8000. You are a pal and no mistake.Well I tried the code you sent me, but it seems like the Apt-get command does not work when you are using the Knoppix 'live' cd. Seems It does work,...... but only when you have it installed to the Hard Drive. It works in Debian okay, but I no longer had Debian. Did I? Groan!
Well that wiped the grin off my face for a while, but then I started looking deeper into the Knoppix Hacks and found the following. Sudo install-mbr /dev/hda The outcome was that it took Grub right out of the MBR and .......would you believe it......never ripped up the MBR. Cor! That was a relief. I had made a backup of it just in case.

So now I have my win XP back in shape except for a couple of minor glitches, which I got rid of by doing a system Restore to an earlier point. But I still do not have Debian on my hard drive. Seems I am going to have to do some research, because I partitioned the drive okay. Ahem! Sort of! Only every time Debian booted it kept telling me that I had not made a swap file. I had, but obviously not right.
The mysterious thing is that it still booted up great. I made a right muck of it somewhere though because although I gave a password that I was familiar with (Debian sugested I use my first name for a user name) it would never recognise that password and I couldn't get into it to sort it out. Dratt!
Yeh well! Guess it is back to the learning curve for this old guy. Must dig into the mysteries of Debian Partions. Guess I am rambling Guy's. Sorry about that. Thanks again. What would I do without you? Regards Grandad Walt.