Re: damaged XP/boot to dos prompt

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you can boot with any winxp and select repair.

the repair will launch the recovery console and
bring up the disk system prompt so that you
can run the following commands>:

chkdsk /p
fixboot
fixmbr

then exit and remove cd.

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incidentally, the fixmbr will fix the master
boot record. just ok it and don't worry
about the warnings.

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"geekdna" <dkillian@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:#44thgMJKHA.4168@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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.


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