Re: FIXMBR
From: William B. Lurie (billurie_at_nospam.org)
Date: 02/26/04
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Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2004 09:59:09 -0500
William B. Lurie wrote:
> William B. Lurie wrote:
>
>> Michael Stevens wrote:
>>
>>> Michael Solomon (MS-MVP Windows Shell/User) wrote:
>>>
>>>> $&%#$*%*!!!!!
>>>>
>>>> Sorry, just had to blow off a little steam!:-)
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> LOL, you are welcome. RC console does run, but in a very limited
>>> capacity.
>>
>>
>> Limited might be okay, I'm up and a bit later this morning I will try
>> th six-floppy boot to see if it gets me to RC. Then I'll play it by ear
>> as to FIXMBR. A still unanswered question is the reference as to whether
>> I tried the RC download......I would appreciate having a link to that
>> download as I could save it on a CD and then not have to go through the
>> tedious loading of six floppies............
>>
> Dear Michaels:
> Well, I tried the 6-floppy boot and it led me to "Type R for Recovery
> Console" and I did. That led me to a choice of "Which do you want to
> fix, C: or D:?"....... So I selected "1" for C: and that led me
> immediately to a prompt C:\WINDOWS ............. Not knowing what to do
> next, I simply rebooted, and it booted up with the usual error 2
> etcetera on which I simply hit any key and here I am. So my next
> question, gentlemen, is, what should I have done at that C:\WINDOWS
> prompt, or, is it a case of the floppy boot without the CD doesn't
> really take me to a full RC capability? In that case, I'll revert to
> having the XP CD in place, and maybe it will load full RC capability?
> Awaiting further advice.......
> WBL
Continuing on with this saga, which is indeed making progress,
I got to the WINDOWS prompt mentioned above, and reread one of your
notes, and entered FIXMBR. Sure enough, it proceeded to tell me
"Nonstd or invalid MBR. Continuing may damage partition tables,
may make all partition tables inaccessible. If you're not having
trouble accessing drives, do not continue." Well, that was enough to
convince me that I should break off here and ask advice from Rick and
the two Michaels.
For the record, the error messages I get during bootup, which are the
real reason I am trying to FIXMBR, are:
Err 5-- Error finding VFLOPPY.SYS
Err 8-- Fake floppy driver not found
Press any key to proceed.
WBL
>
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William B. Lurie
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