I have windows xp on a 120 gig drive and linux mandrake 9.0 on a 15 gig drive. I want to remove the 15 gig drive because it is really loud. Does anyone know how I can get rid of the boot loader without losing all my data. I tried to just disconnect the 15 gig drive and when the computer boots I get

01010101010101010101010101010
01010101010101010101010101010
01010101010101010101010101010
01010101010101010101010101010

The only way I know is to do fdisk mbr but if I do that I would loose all the data on the drive right ?