WinXP Partition Set To Non Bootable

[Marauderz]

Great... Curse me for going with Acer. Today while testing a new USB CD-ROM
booting capability, somehow Acer's BIOS decided to set it's FAT recovery
partition to become the ACTIVE partition!!!

And now I can't get my WinXP partition to be bootable!! I already ran the
recovery console and tried FixMBR, FixBoot, BootCFG /rebuild. And I still
can't get the system to boot through my hard disk!!

Can anyone out there give me a hand? Thanks!

 

[Darren Hook [MSFT]]

The below article walks through the steps to change the active partition.
This should help you in making the change needed.

315261.KB.EN-US The Computer Does Not Start After You Change the Active
Partition
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;315261

Good luck!

Darren Hook
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[Marauderz]

Didn't work.. interseting thing to note is that I'm not getting an NTLDR not
found message, but rather an Operating System not Found message... which I
presume is form the BIOS instead?