I have a Vaio PCG-N505VE. It does not have a CD drive. After a failed attempt of installing Fedora on it, I now wish to put Win2K on. <BR>I pulled the HD and put it in an external exclosure. I then ...

I've never had an MBR virus, but I have used fdisk /mbr to get rid of a bootloader, and it worked very well. It doesn't damage anything on your FAT32 partitions, if that's what you're worried about.