Re: Can someone else help? Was changing partition size.

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C:\ dir gets this
Volume in drive C has no lablel
Volume serial number is 0000-0000

Directory of C:\

NTLDR 08-13-01 12:00 p
1 file(s) 222,368 bytes
0 dir(s) 7, 086,080 bytes free


"Andy" <1@xxx> wrote in message
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Boot from Windows 98 emergency boot floppy.
A:\>dir C:
Do you see the directory listing?
If yes,
A:\>sys c:
Now boot from hard drive. It should boot to Windows 98.

On Mon, 15 Jun 2009 21:39:53 -0400, "Dennis" <den942@xxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

I tried this and have NO access to any hard drive or any OS. It would only
attempt to boot windows 98SE and did not show the DUAL BOOT OPTION.
Then I ended up with the NTDLR not found and now I have the no system
disk
error.
I did have XP booting but not any more.
I tried to repair Windows XP but it says it is corrupt. So now I am
totally
screwed with no access to anything. What now?

"Andy" <1@xxx> wrote in message
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Boot from a Windows 98 emergency boot floppy and execute the following
commands:

A:>c:

C:debug
-n bootsect.wxp
-l 100 2 0 1
-rcx
:200
-w
Writing 00200 bytes
-q

C:\>sys a: c:
System transferred

C:\>attrib -h -s -r bootsect.dos

C:\>debug bootsect.dos
-l 100 2 0 1
-rcx
:200
-w
Writing 00200 bytes
-q

C:\>attrib +r +s +h bootsect.dos

C:\>debug bootsect.wxp
-w 100 2 0 1
-q

C:\>


On Fri, 12 Jun 2009 09:36:46 -0400, Dennis <den942@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Well, I guess this thread got dropped again...

Dennis wrote:
Tim Meddic originally replied. What he suggested did not work. He
never answered my follow up question. This is all the correspondence:

Tim,
Finally had time to try this fix. I don't get on the screen what you
say I will get. When I choose "R" for Repair console, I get a message:
Which Windows XP do you want to repair? and my only choice is:
1. E:\Windows XP. If I choose choose 1, I get the password request
then I hit enter. This takes me to E:\Windows prompt, Not C:\ prompt.
If I type in fixboot C:, it says it will repair the boot information
over writing the original info.. I said yes. It says it repaired it
but
does not tell me to reboot. I rebooted anyway and I still can not boot
in to Windows 98, the screen flashes and I get the two choices again.
Fortunately Windows XP still worked.

Tim Med*** wrote:
> Hi Dennis,
> In that case it's a matter of rebuilding the boot
partition. The Partition table is sometimes written over be programs
that resize partitions. Unfortunately, this is where XP writes a tiny
bit of code to start the boot menu that you [used to] see when your
computer starts up. To repair this you need your XP installation
disk.
Configure your BIOS settings to be able to boot from the cd. Put the
cd in the drive and boot from it. When it gives you the choice -
select
the item: "Repair XP with Recovery Console". After it starts you will
be prompted for the Administrator password, so beforehand you should
know what this is. If you have never configured a password for
Administrator, it will have remained 'blank' and just pressing [ENTER]
when the password is required will be fine. Then you will be faced
by
a DOS-style "C:\>" prompt. This is NOT the same as DOS and for a list
of available commands type "help" and press [ENTER] for more help on
a
command type the command followed by a /? forward-slash / questionmark
'switch'. So for the 'fixboot' command help would look like:
>
> fixboot /?
>
> ..and you would get::
>
> Writes a new bootsector onto the system partition.
>
> FIXBOOT [drive:]
>
> [drive:] Specifies the drive to which a boot sector
> will be written, overriding the default
> choice of the system boot partition.
>
> ....etc. Then type:
>
> fixboot c:
>
> ...at the prompt and press [ENTER] reboot. Your boot.ini file
listing the available bootable Windows installations (i.e. XP and 98)
should be intact on you XP drive, and all should be as it was with
regards to your boot process.
>
> Good luck with this. Re-post with the results of your exploits
and/or any [further] problems.



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