can't boot after recover
- From: dcpiper@xxxxxxxxx
- Date: 13 May 2005 20:11:53 -0700
I got a virus/malware on my Dell D600 laptop running XP SP1 so I
decided to recover from an Acronis True Image 8 backup from 2 weeks
ago. The drive only has 1 partition, 30 gb. After successful recovery,
booting up gives me the message:
"Windows could not start because of a computer dosk hardware
configuration
problem. Could not read from selected boot disk. Check boot path and
disk
hardware."
Something I may have done incorrectly is that my Acronis backup was for
the C: partition, not C: drive. Apparently the MBR is only backed up if
I backup a drive, not a partition. And I may have wiped out the MBR by
accident when I mistakenly did a "clone" operation from the backup
image instead of "recover." So what is going on? Is it a MBR problem?
Can I do an XP install then recover the backup onto the (already
booting) disk? I don't have an XP disk because this is a work computer
and they don't give us the CD. I'll go out and get the XP disk myself
if that's going to solve my problem.
Any help is appreciated.
Andy
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