Re: FIXMBR
From: Michael Solomon \(MS-MVP Windows Shell/User\) (user_at_#notme.com)
Date: 02/25/04
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Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2004 14:07:11 -0800
Windows 98 boot floppies will not get you to the Recovery Console. I can't
say about the XP floppies as I've never tried with them and that was not
their purpose. The purpose of the XP boot floppies was to allow systems
that cannot be set to boot from the CD-ROM drive to have a bootable start up
option from which to begin XP setup.
If you try with the XP floppies, the worst that can happen is you still
cannot reach the recovery console. You're problem is not one of being able
to boot from the CD so I'm not sure how use of the XP floppies would help
unless the Recovery Console was included on those floppies and as far as I
know, it isn't. Hence, this is just another bootable option that still
passes you to the XP CD in order to try to execute the Recovery Console and
that's something, thus far, you've been unable to do either from the CD or
from the downloaded version of the RC.
I think you have some sort of corruption that is either preventing the
loading of the recovery console because you've been unable to load if from
the CD or install it directly to your hard drive. This may be a result of
using Drive Image 7 as opposed to Drive Image 2002 which should have been
included with Drive Image 7 or you may have had some issues prior to this
that are only now coming to light.
As I stated in our last go round, since you can boot to the desktop, you're
best, easiest and quickest solution is to back yourself up and start over
with a fresh, clean install, deleting your current XP partition, creating a
new one and formatting all of which can be done from XP setup.
-- Michael Solomon MS-MVP Windows Shell/User Backup is a PC User's Best Friend DTS-L.Org: http://www.dts-l.org/ "William B. Lurie" <billurie@nospam.org> wrote in message news:OsYouW5%23DHA.3184@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl... > To Michael: (And I cordially invite all others to just go away): > > Michael Solomon (MS-MVP Windows Shell/User) wrote: > > > First, Bill, Drive Image 7 isn't compatible with XP, XP requires at > least Drive Image 2002. > > > ******(I covered that in a separate note. Its own manual says it is.). > > > Second, FIXMBR requires the Recovery Console and haven't we been down > this road before. If you can't install the Recovery Console from either > the download or your XP CD you're pretty much out of luck where that's > concerned. > > ******Michael, I don't recall seeing RC offered to me as a download. > > > It's my guess, that Drive Image 7 has probably butchered setup to the > point that it is preventing from running the Recovery Console: > > > > ******We're pretty much in agreement on that, but Drive Image's creators > refuse to help repair anything. > > > For the record, here are the instructions: > > Be sure your system is set to boot from the CD. If you are not sure, > > when > > the system first boots you usually see message about how to enter > setup or > > something similar and tells you to hit a key, sometimes it's del, > sometimes > > it's esc, just hit the key. This takes you to the system bios, you > need to > > navigate to where the boot sequence is set, put the CD-ROM drive first > > in > > line. > > > > Place the XP CD in the drive, save your settings and exit. The system > will > > reboot and should boot from the CD. If you see a message to hit any > key in > > order to boot from the CD, do so, otherwise, assuming your system > supports > > it, the system should boot from the CD on its own as it can't find > > an OS on the hard drive. > > > ******Stop right there. I've changed the BIOS so that the 3 targets in > boot-up are ALL CDROM, > and I've tried the XP CD in both of my drives, and it always says, on my > screen "Boot from CD", > two lines of it, and then the couple of lines I've mentioned (Error 2, 3 > and 5, hit enter)..... > and when I hit enter, it flies right to my hard drive and boots up with > XP. I know that some > people are tired of us using this bulletin board to work the problem out, > even to the point > of intruding with useless, snotty comments, but the problem exists and > solving existing problems > is what these newsgroups are here for. Your next step....below......I am > unable to reach. > > Somebody said, use WIN98 boot floppies. I answered, "did you mean XP boot > floppies, > which I have", and which might induce my system to load Restore Console > from the CD. > Can you comment on that? > W B L > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > XP Setup will begin by examining your system, don't worry, just let > it run, > > it's just copying some files to a temp folder. Ultimately, you'll be > > brought to a menu. Choose, "Repair a Windows XP installation using the > > Recovery Console, press R. > > > > You will be asked for an administrators password. This is not any of the > > accounts you've created for XP. It's a hidden system account for which > > users are asked only to create a password during setup. Most leave this > > blank. If you left it blank, when asked for a password, just leave blank > > and press enter. > > > > At the prompt type fixmbr and press enter. > > >
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