Re: Can you repair XP Home mbr with XP Pro disk?
From: Carey Frisch [MVP] (mrxp2004_at_nospamyahoo.com)
Date: 07/05/04
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Date: Mon, 5 Jul 2004 13:50:18 -0500
"Which brings me to my original question, does anyone know
if I can use my XP Pro disk, to put into her machine with
XP Home to repair the MBR?"
Answer: No. Visit the support website of the manufacturer of
your friend's PC and look around for the suggested repair
procedure the PC manufacturer recommends.
-- Carey Frisch Microsoft MVP Windows XP - Shell/User Be Smart! Protect your PC! http://www.microsoft.com/security/protect/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Mike" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message: news:26acf01c462bf$5d3c6050$a501280a@phx.gbl... | I'm trying to repair a friends computer that's having | problems booting up into XP Home. She doesn't have the | disk XP Home came preinstalled. I tried to use system | restore but she had "Roxio Go Back 3.0" installed which | had system restore turned off. I tried to use Go Back to | go back to a previous time but none of the "go back" | points worked either. after doing a little research on Go | Back I decided to uninstall the program anyway. I have | been able to access the operating system a few times but | only after waiting a very long time. | | Also her hard disk had no free space on it but I was able | to remove a few programs and free up some space. I was | also able to run Spybot and removed 72 different types of | spyware and adware. I was able to run defrag in safe | mode, which also seemed to help a little. | I suspect at least one or more viruses but I can't run a | virus scan because her trial period has expired. I would | load Norton Antivirus 2003 professional edition for her | but I don't think there's enough room on the hard drive | and I probably can't access the operating system to do it | anyway. | | An error message kept coming up saying that virtual | memory was low so I went into safe mode and changed the | paging file to 576 (384 x 1.5), minimum and 1728 (576 x | 3),max. she has 384 MB of RAM. | | After all this I'm still not having much luck getting to | the desktop. | | I would use the recovery console but it's not installed | and I don't have the disk to install it, I'm also aware | of ASR (Advanced system Recovery) but of course she | doesn't have The XP backup utility installed either and I | don't know if there's another way to install it without | the disk. | | Which brings me to my original question, does anyone know | if I can use my XP Pro disk, to put into her machine with | XP Home to repair the MBR? | | Any help at all would be greatly appreciated. | |
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