I have actually had problems with this methodology in the past. For some reason the DOS MBR tools do not necessarily do the job.

One other thing that can be tried is get into a DOS prompt and try...

Sounds to me like the boot sector was still configured with grub. The quickest solution to fixing this problem (from a linux point of view, at least) would have been to boot the machine into linux...

When installing the java JRE, what you need to do is extract the JRE somewhere on your system (such as /opt/java or something... perhaps /usr/local/java), then find the java plugin module that is...