I am very stupid: 'grub-install hda1'

[Joseph Lorenzo Hall]

I did something really stupid and would like the advice of this list and
its expertise.

The stupidity:
I installed an inferior bootloader and in the process of restoring GRUB, I
issued both 'grub-install hda' AND 'grub-install hda1'.  hda1 is my
windows 98 SE partition!

The result:
Now, I can get GRUB to load linux fine but the 'grub-install hda1' command
wrote GRUB to my windows partition. Now, when I select my windows
partition from the GRUB menu, it says 'GRUB loading stage2...' for a
SECOND time (as it already displayed that right before the GRUB menu as
it should) and then it hangs. So My windows partition is unbootable.

My questions:
-Does anyone think it is possible to recover from this mistake?
-What did 'grub-install hda1' do to my windows partition?
-Did it write over the files necessary to boot windows?
-I can still mount my windows partition so the data is there... just
unbootable.
-Is it possible to add a feature to grub-install that does 'fdisk -l
<drive>' and asks for confirmation if it thinks that the user is an idiot
like me? (if grub-install had said, "you are about to install GRUB on the
first partition of hda which seems to be a FAT32 filesystem... are you
sure you want to do this?" I would have declined.)

Thanks for any help,
Joe

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