Re: Fixmbr doesn't fix mbr

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"VanguardLH" wrote:

Are we to guess that your host was working before?

Yes.

That this is a new
problem or one that existed ever since you got the host?

New problem on three PC for now.

We are to
guess that you made absolutely no changes to your host between when it
worked and when it failed to subsequently [re]boot?


No changes. Only a windows update (kb959426).

Where you multibooting before using Microsoft's dual-boot scheme or a
multiboot manager that usurps the bootstrap code area of the MBR (GAG,
grub, IBM boot manager, System Commander, etc)?

No multi-boot. Only one operating system, Windows XP, with its standard boot.

Did you clone just the partition(s)? Or did you clone the entire disk,
including its MBR (master boot record) area (which is never inside a
partition)? Did you run FIXMBR on the 2nd disk before cloning over a
partition to it? I would think a clone program would have to update the
partition tables in the MBR before creating the partition into which it
clones the contents of another partition but I don't know how you did
your cloning.

I cloned ENTIRE hard disk (from 80 GB to 80 GB) including its MBR. The
strange thing is that FIXMBR doesn't work neither on the second hard disk. So
surely it's not a hardware problem... And my clone software (that does a 1:1
copy) doesn't adjust MBR, it just does an exact copy. (to note: the clone
software is the linux comand "dd")

When prompted, did you tell FIXMBR to go ahead and overwrite its
standard structure (i.e., did you force a rewrite of the MBR)?

Yes.

Did you
load the Recovery Console mode from the hard disk or by using the
installation CD?

Only from installation CD, because the hard disk is unbootable.

If you used the install CD, is it as the same service
pack level as your installed instance of Windows?

On the machine there's windows xp service pack 3, I have only Windows XP SP2
CDs. How can I do?
.

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