Quote Originally Posted by drdoom View Post
]Unfortunately. I'm stuck waiting for someone else to get the Windows disks so I have no idea how long it will take.
imho, you should just go ahead and set the box up linux. It is easy enough to reinstall the mint install from scratch once you finally get the windows disks in if you didn't want to restore grub.

That would give you something working today and the promise of the alternative in the future.