Re: How to find MBR partion of windows?
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"Jatinder" <Jatinder@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>I've couple of XP Pro and Windows 2003 runniung on seprate two hardrives. So
>on which partion i should run repair fdisk-mbr
Which drive is configured as the primary boot drive in your computer's
BIOS setup?
Normally the boot drive is the master drive on the primary IDE
channel, but some BIOS versions allow you to change this.
You do not want to use FDISK /MBR on the drives containing your
Windows XP or 2003 partitions. Doing so will render them unbootable,
and possibly unusable. FDISK is a DOS/Windows 9x tool and should not
be used with drives containing NT based versions of Windows.
Instead boot your computer to the Windows XP Recovery Console using
your Windows XP Installation CD and run FIXMBR from the recovery
console command prompt.
Good luck
Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada
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