No XP rescue utility?

[Guest]

I dual-boot my computer between several OSes, DOS (to run old games and NetWare 6.5), NT 3.51&4, Win2000, two flavors of Linux and WinXP, in addition to its OEM Win98. Anyway, shortly after installing XP, I did some maintenence that would require me to overwrite the booting information that would point my DOS partition to the NT boot files (NTLDR, NTDETECT, etc.). I tried the good old method of running the rescue utility off the XP setup disc...and found I needed a floppy to run this utility. I ran it off the 2000 setup disk, however, this replaced XP's NT boot files with 2000's, naturally, making me unable to boot WinXP. Is there some recovery console command, a disk image available for download off Microsoft's website, or some way to get a working rescue disk? I've already "activated" this copy of XP, if I try to re-install it on the same computer, will I be able to, or will I have to pay to install it again? The copy of XP is an upgrade, for what information that provides.

Anyway, if anyone has any information/suggestions that can help me get XP booting again I'd apprieciate it. Thanks in advance!

Dave

 

[Ross Durie]

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Ross

I dual-boot my computer between several OSes, DOS (to run old games and

NetWare 6.5), NT 3.51&4, Win2000, two flavors of Linux and WinXP, in
addition to its OEM Win98. Anyway, shortly after installing XP, I did some
maintenence that would require me to overwrite the booting information that
would point my DOS partition to the NT boot files (NTLDR, NTDETECT, etc.). I
tried the good old method of running the rescue utility off the XP setup
disc...and found I needed a floppy to run this utility. I ran it off the
2000 setup disk, however, this replaced XP's NT boot files with 2000's,
naturally, making me unable to boot WinXP. Is there some recovery console
command, a disk image available for download off Microsoft's website, or
some way to get a working rescue disk? I've already "activated" this copy of
XP, if I try to re-install it on the same computer, will I be able to, or
will I have to pay to install it again? The copy of XP is an upgrade, for
what information that provides.

Anyway, if anyone has any information/suggestions that can help me get XP

booting again I'd apprieciate it. Thanks in advance!