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i see this has been coverd here but if you'd be so kind, i have a fwew more
questions about it.
My machine is a HP Compaq Notebook NX7010 running XP Pro with new 3 month
old Hitachi 160Gb HDD.
the boot has failed with the above error on start up after set up screen. I
have run the Hitachi Disk tool which tells me that the drive is fine. Also i
know this as i have taken the drive out and exteranlly attached it to another
machine and i can get most of the files off [except those under my login
username dir.. please see further down].
my questions are:
if i run FIXMBR, will it overwrite any dat on the drive? do i have a choice
in the matter?
will FIXBOOT do the same?
which if these 2 should i run first? and what is the difference between the 2?
lastly, if i do need to format and star tagain as i really really want to
avoid this as i have just completed it migrating everything from the machines
original disc to this one, how do i copy information from this HDD when it is
afixed as an external drive on another machine from dirs that have been
created under users names and these dirs have no access to them except for
that user when he/she is logged on? [sorry i dont know the specific
terminology of this locked dirs].
this is all information i have learnt while researching my problem so if
anyone has any great hints or tips to try or that i have missed please feel
free to enlighten me..
i see this has been coverd here but if you'd be so kind, i have a fwew more
questions about it.
My machine is a HP Compaq Notebook NX7010 running XP Pro with new 3 month
old Hitachi 160Gb HDD.
the boot has failed with the above error on start up after set up screen. I
have run the Hitachi Disk tool which tells me that the drive is fine. Also i
know this as i have taken the drive out and exteranlly attached it to another
machine and i can get most of the files off [except those under my login
username dir.. please see further down].
my questions are:
if i run FIXMBR, will it overwrite any dat on the drive? do i have a choice
in the matter?
will FIXBOOT do the same?
which if these 2 should i run first? and what is the difference between the 2?
lastly, if i do need to format and star tagain as i really really want to
avoid this as i have just completed it migrating everything from the machines
original disc to this one, how do i copy information from this HDD when it is
afixed as an external drive on another machine from dirs that have been
created under users names and these dirs have no access to them except for
that user when he/she is logged on? [sorry i dont know the specific
terminology of this locked dirs].
this is all information i have learnt while researching my problem so if
anyone has any great hints or tips to try or that i have missed please feel
free to enlighten me..