fixmbr

[Bill Cunningham]

Is there a way I can copy fixmbr.exe to my XP partition or volume as MS
likes to call it? I get tired of always having to boot my XP x64 disk
everytime I want to remove grub or something.

Bill

 

[Paul]

Is there a way I can copy fixmbr.exe to my XP partition or volume as MS
likes to call it? I get tired of always having to boot my XP x64 disk
everytime I want to remove grub or something.

Bill

It's a built-in and part of the shell or something.

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I would love for it to be a separate program, but it's not
available that way.

There are other programs.

Bootrec is obviously not intended for WinXP, as it
doesn't support NT52 argument.

http://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1019324-difference-between-bootrec-and-bootsect/

The manual page for bootsect, suggests it has the
"right stuff", supports NT52, but in practice I don't
think it worked for me for some reason.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc749177(v=WS.10).aspx

And those are all the ones I know of, short of using "dd", finding
a copy of the MBR code, and doing it that way.

Doing fixboot (the one for the partition boot sector), is out of the
question, because it seems to do more than you'd think. I wouldn't
attempt to fiddle that one manually, unless a good deal was known
about the partition (like copying the file system header, prepping
the partition the same way each time, so any mistakes you make might be
invisible to you).

So when I need to repair stuff, I'm still booting the CD. After
a lot of screwing around, and not getting anywhere, that's
always faster.

You get bootrec or bootsect, off a Vista+ (Vista or later) DVD.

Paul

 

[VanguardLH]

Is there a way I can copy fixmbr.exe to my XP partition or volume as
MS likes to call it? I get tired of always having to boot my XP x64
disk everytime I want to remove grub or something.

Install Recovery Console mode. Then, on boot, you'll have the option to
load the Recovery Console OS where you will find fixmbr.

http://support2.microsoft.com/kb/307654

If you don't want to install the Recovery Console mode (just an image
file put on your hard disk which becomes an entry in boot.ini for an OS
to select), you can boot from the XP install CD and pick Recovery
Console from that.

http://helpdeskgeek.com/how-to/fix-mbr-xp-vista/

Because this uses the Administrator account so you can do admin things,
you'll need to know the Administrator's logon password.

 

[Bill Cunningham]

Install Recovery Console mode. Then, on boot, you'll have the option to
load the Recovery Console OS where you will find fixmbr.

http://support2.microsoft.com/kb/307654

If you don't want to install the Recovery Console mode (just an image
file put on your hard disk which becomes an entry in boot.ini for an OS
to select), you can boot from the XP install CD and pick Recovery
Console from that.

http://helpdeskgeek.com/how-to/fix-mbr-xp-vista/

Because this uses the Administrator account so you can do admin things,
you'll need to know the Administrator's logon password.

Yes I didn't know this. I works very well Thanks.

Bill