Fix MBR

[Ron Eggler]

Hi,

I installed a new copy of WinXP and I can't boot without the CD, because it
tells me, it wouldn't have any Bootable device...
I already started the recovery-console from the CD and tried to fix it with

fixmbr
fixboot c:

but no success... why, what could it be?
could there be a broken MBR on the HDD?
Thanx!

 

[Michael D. Alligood]

Use the recover console and try this:

chkdsk /p
fixmbr c:

 

[Frank Jelenko]

What does the /p switch do? I can't find it in chkdsk /?

 

[S.Sengupta]

http://www.microsoft.com/resources/...Windows/XP/all/reskit/en-us/prkd_tro_ldau.asp

regards,
ssg MS-MVP
pronetworks.org

 

[Michael D. Alligood]

Chkdsk The /p switch runs Chkdsk even if the drive is not flagged as dirty.
The /r switch locates bad sectors and recovers readable information. This
switch implies /p. Chkdsk requires Autochk. Chkdsk automatically looks for
Autochk.exe in the startup folder. If Chkdsk cannot find the file in the
startup folder, it looks for the Windows 2000 Setup CD-ROM. If Chkdsk cannot
find the installation CD-ROM, Chkdsk prompts the user for the location of
Autochk.exe.

 

[Feng Mao]

Hi Ron,

Thank you for posting!

I believe S.Sengupta and Michael's suggestions will be helpful.

If you still fail to start Windows XP from hard disk, you may try to
perform repair installation (also named in-place upgrade) of Windows XP to
rewrite the MBR information.

For detailed information, please refer to KB article:

315341 How to perform an in-place upgrade (reinstallation) of Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=315341

Have a nice day!

Thanks & Regards,

Feng Mao [MSFT], MCSE
Microsoft Online Partner Support

Get Secure! - www.microsoft.com/security

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| Subject: Fix MBR
| Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2004 20:50:46 +0200
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| Hi,
|
| I installed a new copy of WinXP and I can't boot without the CD, because
it
| tells me, it wouldn't have any Bootable device...
| I already started the recovery-console from the CD and tried to fix it
with
|
| fixmbr
| fixboot c:
|
| but no success... why, what could it be?
| could there be a broken MBR on the HDD?
| Thanx!
|
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