Re: Can't Get Rid Of Unwanted Reference In MBR
From: John Thow (jtacom_at_someisp.net)
Date: 02/29/04
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Date: Sun, 29 Feb 2004 19:58:14 GMT
On Sun, 29 Feb 2004 18:14:00 GMT, "Steve N." <NoOne@nunya.biz> wrote:
>
>
>John Thow wrote:
>
>> On Sun, 29 Feb 2004 11:28:44 -0500, ByTor <ByTor@snowdog.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>>>In article <404208f8.7645203@msnews.microsoft.com>, jtacom@someisp.net,
>>>John Thow says...
>>>
>>>
>>>>LO Again,
>>>>
>>>>The system's original HDD had a reference to an (unwanted) Ontrack overlay
>>>>added to its MBR when a second HDD was added. Removal of the overlay from the
>>>>new disk has not removed the reference from the original. This has disabled
>>>>the multi-boot manager (PowerQuest BootMagic) which cannot be re-enabled with
>>>>the reference still in place. Seagate, who supplied the new disk and
>>>>installation software, say we need to re-initialise the disk in order to get
>>>>rid of the unwanted data in the MBR.
>>
>>
>> [Chop]
>>
>>
>>>Did you try to simply boot to the cd, use the repair option/advanced
>>>recovery console and re-format the MBR???
>>>
>>>http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?
>>>scid=http://support.microsoft.com:80/support/kb/articles/Q291/9/80.ASP&N
>>>oWebContent=1
>>>
>>>Pagefile to small can be changed booting in to safe mode....Happened to
>>>me the other day when it was accidently wiped out. Safe mode created a
>>>temp that allowed me to run it.
>>>
>>
>>
>> ByTor,
>>
>> Tried the first one: No difference. W2K won't boot into safe mode; just
>> stalls.
>>
>> Thanks.
>> --
>> John Thow
>
>Just for clarity sake... Safe Mode is not the same as Recovery Console.
>Are you saying you can't boot from the 2K CD and get into Recovery
>Console? If you can then try running FIXMBR and also CHKDSK /P. One of
>them should be able to rewrite the MBR and boot sector. Sorry if you
>already have tried this.
>
>There are other disk utilities out there that should be able to re-write
>the MBR and boot sector, one is called BOOT.EXE (if you go searching for
>it be careful there are some trojans out there with the same name) but
>you'll need to have it first get a good MBR and Boot Sector written to
>files from a working machine.
>
>If you can't find it easily let me know and I'll email a copy of it to you.
>
>Steve
>
Hi again Steve,
I can (and have) booted from the W2K Cd and got into recovery console, but
Fixmbr from there didn't work either. I tried Safe mode from an attempted
load of the Ghost-ed disk: That just stalled (black screen).
Not sure about your BOOT.EXE idea. If it needs 'a good MBR & Boot Sector', I
suspect those'd have to be from a disk with the same geometry as the one I've
got trouble with. The only one I've got like that is the one with the
problem. If Boot.Exe allows you to save the MBR, I suppose I could Ghost
image the drive, re-partition & re-format with the same geometry, run Boot.exe
to save the MBR somewhere else, restore the image and re-run Boot.exe to
replace the MBR. Do you think that'd work?
Thanks again for looking at this.
lol
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