can't boot after recover

[dcpiper]

I got a virus/malware on my Dell D600 laptop running XP SP1 so I
decided to recover from an Acronis True Image 8 backup from 2 weeks
ago. The drive only has 1 partition, 30 gb. After successful recovery,
booting up gives me the message:

"Windows could not start because of a computer dosk hardware
configuration
problem. Could not read from selected boot disk. Check boot path and
disk
hardware."

Something I may have done incorrectly is that my Acronis backup was for
the C: partition, not C: drive. Apparently the MBR is only backed up if
I backup a drive, not a partition. And I may have wiped out the MBR by
accident when I mistakenly did a "clone" operation from the backup
image instead of "recover." So what is going on? Is it a MBR problem?
Can I do an XP install then recover the backup onto the (already
booting) disk? I don't have an XP disk because this is a work computer
and they don't give us the CD. I'll go out and get the XP disk myself
if that's going to solve my problem.

Any help is appreciated.
Andy

 

[Rich Barry]

If you can borrow any WinXP or Win2KPro disk even better, you can
probably fix this from the Recovery Console.
You will be interested in the commands: FixMBR , FiXBoot and Bootcfg
/rebuild For more info on RC check here
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;314058

 

[hsiacc]

Thanks, good to know. I do have Win2KPro I'll give it a try.