Re: damaged XP/boot to dos prompt
- From: smlunatick <yveslec@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2009 10:14:10 -0700 (PDT)
On Aug 24, 3:35 pm, "geekdna" <dkill...@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Still messing w/damaged XP OS. (original post below) Can boot to safe mode
w/dos prompt, but many of the commands I'm used to aren't there (fixboot,
bootcfg, map) are there any comparable? I can't get /p to work when I type
help, so can't see many of the commands available. Is there some other
command I can use? Then I can at least see the commands and try to figure
out if one of them can help me.
Still no cd rom available. c:\dir reveals a config.sys with nothing in it..
Is there something I can type in there to get more of my system to work?
When I did a c:\config.sys, windows asked me what program to run & allowed
me to open notepad to view it. Can I use this option to my advantage for
more recovery purposes? I'm hoping...
Needed to repair my XP SP2 OS but the disks I thought were the right ones
weren't. It iwas a different OEM version and I don't have a product key,
so
can't boot up. Now that I have found the correct recovery disks for my
system, the F10 recovery option is not available while starting. I can get
into BIOS and CMOS and even boot to safe mode w/prompt, but I can't get it
to boot from CD, even tho it says it's doing so. When at the command
prompt,
I can't get an alternate drive to come up, even tho the CD rom drive shows
up in the BIOS. A flash drive isn't recognized, either.
I can't help but think it should be an easy fix, but I don't know how to
go
about it.
--
Donna
404 Westover Dr.
Yakima, WA 98908
509.494.3015 c
509.249.8836 fx
509.249.0080 w
You are doing it wrong! Fixboot and Bootcfg are not directly
installed on to the hard drive. These are part of the Recovery
Console which is usually found when booting a true XP install CD (not
the recovery CDs.)
Also, there are some web sites that offer methods on installing the
Recovery Console onto the hard drive. This will add a boot option.
.
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