RE: operating system boot error

From: Hugh (Hugh_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 11/02/04 

Date: Mon, 1 Nov 2004 16:43:05 -0800

Fixboot may help-use your CD to statup the recovery console.
>From the XP Help file:
"Fixboot
Writes a new partition boot sector to the system partition. The fixboot
command is only available when you are using the Recovery Console.

fixboot [drive]

Parameter

drive

The drive to which a boot sector will be written. This replaces the default
drive, which is the system partition you are logged on to. An example of a
drive is:

D:

Example

The following example writes a new partition boot sector to the system
partition in drive D:

fixboot d:

 Note

Using the fixboot command without any parameters will write a new partition
boot sector to the system partition you are logged on to".

You want to switch to the C: drive, of course.
This should work if the situation is as you think. If not, you may need to
reinstall XP.

"Zattack" wrote:

> I started a previous thread called "no operating system upon boot" that is
> still unresolved. I believe the meat of the story is that during work in
> the drive management utility for XP Home, I reformatted the drive D
> partition and potentially may have marked it as the primary or boot drive or
> somehow confused the system as to which drive to boot to. The C drive
> should still be intact with an operating system and files but the d drive is
> totally blank and upon a reboot, the system simply displays a "no operating
> system availabel" message on my laptop screen. I need to know what the next
> step is to try and inform the system upon boot to check the c drive for the
> operating system. Any help is appreciated. Thanks,
>
> Z
>
>
>

Relevant Pages

  • Re: Help! - FIXBOOT turned my FAT32 bootsector into NTFS!
    ... with a single 20 GB primary DOS partition. ... FIXBOOT Responded with the following: ... > There's no difference between a FAT32 boot sector and an NTFS boot sector. ... > But there are important differences between a Win98 boot sector and a WinXP ...
    (microsoft.public.windowsxp.general)
  • Re: Boot Virus Help
    ... FixbootWrites a new partition boot sector to the system partition. ... fixboot command is only available when you are using the Recovery Console. ...
    (microsoft.public.security.virus)
  • Re: bootsect.bak
    ... The exact function of this file has changed with successive generations of Windows, so this answer may not be correct for all versions. ... These are the most basic, most primitive instructions that make the system start to "pull itself up by its bootstraps" - that is, to "boot" itself by starting from zero. ... The Partition Table has room for four 16-byte entries; each of these tells where one partition starts and ends, plus a few bits of information about that partition, including whether it is the one Active partition on that HDD. ... The contents of the boot sector vary, depending on which operating system wrote it onto the hard drive. ...
    (microsoft.public.windows.vista.general)
  • Re: Win98 installation on Win2000 installed PC
    ... It may be possible to install Win98 The boot sector for both OS's must ... reside on the System partition C:\ Below ... Then install Win98 to second drive. ...
    (microsoft.public.win2000.setup_upgrade)
  • Re: bootsect.bak
    ... The exact function of this file has changed with successive generations of Windows, so this answer may not be correct for all versions. ... These are the most basic, most primitive instructions that make the system start to "pull itself up by its bootstraps" - that is, to "boot" itself by starting from zero. ... The Partition Table has room for four 16-byte entries; each of these tells where one partition starts and ends, plus a few bits of information about that partition, including whether it is the one Active partition on that HDD. ... The contents of the boot sector vary, depending on which operating system wrote it onto the hard drive. ...
    (microsoft.public.windows.vista.general)
Quantcast