Re: Help with recovery partiton
- From: "Bill Blanton" <bblanton@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2009 15:24:42 -0500
"Jb" <j5789@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:beidnXDIJuB7wgDUnZ2dnUVZ8uqWnZ2d@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Can anyone with a compaq machine do me a kindness and post the contents of the boot.ini file please.
No1 son decided to 'repair' my Compaq Pressario by installing a retail version of XP Pro. It should have XP Home on it so now it
is illegal. By doing he has overwritten the boot.ini file so that using F10 no longer gives access to the recovery option,
partition 'D'
If I can set the boot back to standard I can then reinstall it to factory default.
Of course you realize that you will lose all data files if you do this. Make
sure to backup anything that you wish to keep.
If you had to press F10 to access the Compaq restore routine, then it's
likely that the restore routine was booted directly from the MBR code
and not the Windows loader code that's used to process boot.ini.
The XP-Pro install may have overwritten the MBR boot code as well. You
might have success booting into the Compaq restore partition by setting
the restore partition's boot flag in the partition table as active, and also
disabling XP's boot flag by zeroing it out.
Not hard to do, but the method depends on a number of factors. What media
are available for booting? Floppy, CD, USB. Is the HD SATA, and if so can it
be configured as a legacy IDE device in the BIOS so that a DOS boot will
see it?
There are a number of tools to change the "active" boot flag from within
Windows, but the catch is that you need to be able to change it back in case
the Compaq recovery software does not boot, and you no longer have
access to Windows.
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