fixmbr where to get it?

[Jeff]

I have an XP home system on which a week ago I tried Linux. Unfortunately
Linux installed its installer "grub" in the mbr. I am now getting rid of the
Linux on my system but to return things the way they were, I need to replace
grub by the XO boot loader. Apparently that is in the XP CD.

However, this is a Toshiba laptop and its restore CD will restore the laptop
to its original configuration and does not seem to have a "repair" option.
Is there another way I can get to fixmbr to replace grub on my system?

Thanks.

 

[Rick \Nutcase\ Rogers]

Hi Jeff,

Using the WinXP Boot floppy set:
http://www.rickrogers.org/fixes.htm#Boot floppy

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

 

[S.Sengupta]

How to obtain Windows XP Setup boot disks
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q310994

Enter the recovery console (press R when it asks you whether you want to
install windows etc.) When you're at the console, type:

fixmbr

and that will remove GRUB from your system.

regards,
ssg MS-MVP

 

[Alan Smith]

I have an XP home system on which a week ago I tried Linux. Unfortunately
Linux installed its installer "grub" in the mbr. I am now getting rid of
the Linux on my system but to return things the way they were, I need to
replace grub by the XO boot loader. Apparently that is in the XP CD.

However, this is a Toshiba laptop and its restore CD will restore the
laptop to its original configuration and does not seem to have a "repair"
option. Is there another way I can get to fixmbr to replace grub on my
system?

Thanks.

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Jeff Stevens
Email address deliberately false to avoid spam
(e-mail address removed)

Run fdisk and remove the partitions. Recreate them and reformat.

 

[Jeff]

Thank you so much!

 

[Jeff]

Thank you, thank you, thank you!

 

[Jeff]

Life is just never easy!!

My laptop is a Toshiba Satellite and although it can boot from CD, it has no
floppy drive :-((. I suppose I could buy a USB floppy drive to boot from,
but could the Windows XP Setup boot disks I donwloaded be written to a CD
and used that way? Any other options?

Thanks for the good advice so far.

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Jeff Stevens
Email address deliberately false to avoid spam
(e-mail address removed)

 

[Jeff]

Is there a similar download for CD boot disk? This damn Toshiba laptop has
no floppy drive!

 

[Jeff]

I found a I386 folder on my laptop's HD. I believe I read once somewhere
that you can recreate a XP CD boot disc using the files in the I386, but I
do not recall how that is done. Do you happen to know?

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Jeff Stevens
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[Jeff]

I did some more reading and searched for not only the I386 folder but also
WINNT32.EXE on my HD. However, when I tried to run WINNT32.EXE it told me
it could not install Windows because the version running was newer. I guess
that is because it is now SP-2 etc. There was no option to continue anyway.

I have a recent Acronis image backup of my C: system partition on an
external USB drive. I tried restoring from that which was successful, but
that did not affect the mbr which is what I am trying to restore.

Anything else I can try?

The links provided provide the ability to create boot floppies for XP. Are
there similar ones for a boot CD?

Thanks again.

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Jeff Stevens
Email address deliberately false to avoid spam
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[Harry Ohrn]

Download this 7.5 mb iso http://home.comcast.net/~access_denied/DTU/RC.iso
Use it to create a bootable CD that will enable you to use the Recovery
Console

 

[Jeff]

Thank you. That would be what I need.

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Jeff Stevens
Email address deliberately false to avoid spam
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[Jeff]

Thank you very much