Make Partition bootable.

[Serban Coss]

I had two OS installed on the same drive: Me and XP. When
booting up I had the choice of selecting which program to
boot. Recently I formatted the partition used to hold the
Win Me and now I canno boot at all in the WinXP on the
disk which contains all my data. Tried everything but
that partition shows Hidden and I cannot boot from it.
What should I do?

Thanks

 

[Rick \Nutcase\ Rogers]

Hmm, fat fingers tonight, that should be:

"run bootcfg /rebuild"

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers aka "Nutcase" MS-MVP - Win9x

Associate Expert - WinXP - Expert Zone

Hi,

Boot the WinXP CD, run the Recovery Console, ru nbootcfg /rebuild from the
command prompt.

HOW TO: Install and Use the Recovery Console in Windows XP [Q307654]
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=307654

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers aka "Nutcase" MS-MVP - Win9x

Associate Expert - WinXP - Expert Zone

I had two OS installed on the same drive: Me and XP. When
booting up I had the choice of selecting which program to
boot. Recently I formatted the partition used to hold the
Win Me and now I canno boot at all in the WinXP on the
disk which contains all my data. Tried everything but
that partition shows Hidden and I cannot boot from it.
What should I do?

Thanks

 

[Alex Nichol]

I had two OS installed on the same drive: Me and XP. When
booting up I had the choice of selecting which program to
boot. Recently I formatted the partition used to hold the
Win Me and now I canno boot at all in the WinXP on the
disk which contains all my data.

The ME partition *also* held the files needed to do the initial boot of
XP. You will have to reinstate them. Set the BIOS to boot CD before
Hard Disk. Boot the XP CD and, instead of Setup, take the immediate R
for Repair. Assume any password requested is blank, and TAB over.

Use its COPY command to
Copy x:\i386\ntldr C:\ntldr
and
Copy x:\ntdetect.com c:\ntdetect.com
where x: is the CD drive letter, then
BootCfg /Rebuild