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For the second time in about a year the installed Recovery Console on my
HD will not boot up. The menu choice is there, but when I choose it it
just hangs up - it does not boot into the setup and never gets to the
point where is prompts for F6 disk etc.
reinstalling it from the CD fixes it up, and apparently nothing is
different (via a file compare). It appears that the bootsect.dat file
gets created upon install, it is the only file w/ a "new" date.
My guess is that a defrag moved something that it should not have, so that
the cmdcons\bootsect.dat no longer "points" to the right absolute disk
sector. [I use PerfectDisk7]. Does that make sense? Why would it have
an absolute disk ref in it anyway, seems dumb. wouldn't it all be
file-system relative stuff at that point in the boot process?
I've googled etc for answers, but found nothing.
Anyone else have this issue? any hints on what might have gone wrong?
[the regular xp boot works fine]
TIA
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HD will not boot up. The menu choice is there, but when I choose it it
just hangs up - it does not boot into the setup and never gets to the
point where is prompts for F6 disk etc.
reinstalling it from the CD fixes it up, and apparently nothing is
different (via a file compare). It appears that the bootsect.dat file
gets created upon install, it is the only file w/ a "new" date.
My guess is that a defrag moved something that it should not have, so that
the cmdcons\bootsect.dat no longer "points" to the right absolute disk
sector. [I use PerfectDisk7]. Does that make sense? Why would it have
an absolute disk ref in it anyway, seems dumb. wouldn't it all be
file-system relative stuff at that point in the boot process?
I've googled etc for answers, but found nothing.
Anyone else have this issue? any hints on what might have gone wrong?
[the regular xp boot works fine]
TIA
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