No system partition after SP2 install.

[Chris R. Speaker]

Hello all,

I have a problem after I installed SP2 in that my system partition is no
longer being recognized by Disk Management(or windows XP) as system. Don't
get me wrong the disk is there and the system boots and runs perfectly. The
reason this is a problem is I'm trying to install the recovery console to
the system disk via winnt32 /cmdcons but it just says no valid system
partition found.
All drives have no mirroring, compression, or raid and the disks are
basic. Using Winxp Pro (OEM) and FreeBSD(which is the active partition) via
dual boot. Could it be that FreeBSD's partition being active is causing this
problem?
Thanks in advance for any help.

Chris
(e-mail address removed)

 

[CS]

Hello all,

I have a problem after I installed SP2 in that my system partition is no
longer being recognized by Disk Management(or windows XP) as system. Don't
get me wrong the disk is there and the system boots and runs perfectly. The
reason this is a problem is I'm trying to install the recovery console to
the system disk via winnt32 /cmdcons but it just says no valid system
partition found.
All drives have no mirroring, compression, or raid and the disks are
basic. Using Winxp Pro (OEM) and FreeBSD(which is the active partition) via
dual boot. Could it be that FreeBSD's partition being active is causing this
problem?
Thanks in advance for any help.

Chris
(e-mail address removed)

Chris:

You can't install the Recovery Console to the system partition because
FreeBSD has its MBR there. However, with BootIt Next Generation from
Terabyte Unlimited, it's possible. BING is a great boot manager plus
does lots of other great things. Please go here and read about it:

www.terabyteunlimited.com It's shareware, try before you buy, fully
functional for 30 days. $35.00