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Triple boot - WinXP Pro, Win98SE, Linux Redhat 7.2 trouble
If I remember correctly I got rid of the DDO info by issuing "fixmbr" and then the "fixboot" commands from the Recovery Console. Hopefully you still have your 80 GB HDD loaded with all your data, just in case things go badly. RReed: While the Recovery Console commands suggested by Snarky *may* do the job,

We're OT now... Re: Shared/moved Font Folder
If you were using XP's boot manager, possibly one or more of the files needed by that became corrupt during the power glitch. Boot the PC with the XP CD and choose the option to repair using the recovery console. Once in the recovery console, use the fixboot command to repair the XP boot. -- Tom Porterfield MS-MVP

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Available Commands HELP Use the help command to list all of the following supported commands: attrib delete fixboot md type cd dir fixmbr mkdir systemroot chdir CHKDSK chkdsk drive /p /r This command (where drive specifies the drive to check) checks the drive, and if needed, repairs or recovers the drive.

upgrade HDD
SUCKSedu microsoft public win2000 general Gary, you actually didn't provide the exact information I needed, but I will proceed making "reasonable" assumptions. Use the fixboot command. This should restore the ability to start Windows 2000. Does this set up the boot.ini file or do I then need to edit the file

pasar de win98 a win2000
Don't actually *use* the Commands yet, cos some of them can screw things up really badly, if they are used when they aren't actually needed, but familiarise Then (depending on what the MAP Command shows) try the FIXBOOT Command. & finally try the FIXMBR Command (having read the M$KB Article about it *first*!

XP gurus: how to move an XP partition
Recovery Console also has the fixboot command to fix MBR if some other OS install has broken it. If you are using a partition/boot manager, then you can run that app to fix it seems that XP would still find other partitions which may not be needed and which may be "distracting" to XP (if you see what I mean!).

FIXMBR and FIXBOOT actions?
If this is the case, you can load the Recovery Console and run fixboot from the command prompt. As your Recovery CD will likely not do this (you need a regular system disk), you can do it by creating the 6 disk boot floppy set. Download the file needed from one of these links, then run (double-click) it to create

Dualboot between win2000 and win98
I think it's more a combo of XP and the SATA controllers on the mother board that determine whether an external driver is needed. There are also different typs HTH Pop` "Poprivet`" wrote: Bjorn wrote: Hi, can fixboot be a way for restoring the SATA driver? I ask as I dont know what this command does. or can do.

Will I be able to get back to Win2k after I've installed ...
Having done that, then I ran the command "fixboot" as suggested in the instructions. I didn't know anything needed to be done about the "BOOT.ini" situation so I am going to print your answer and give it a shot in the morning. Too late to try it now. Just about ready to pass out, so tired of fighting this error.

INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE
... process apparently created copies of most, but not all, setup files in that directory) to create a boot option into the Recovery Console, which is what I really needed (I think). You cannot access any folders, but you can carry out commands such as chkdsk, fixboot, and fixmbr for limited disk repairs.

Copy windows xp back to main drive?
You can probably fix this problem using the FIXBOOT command. Just type the word FIXBOOT then press Enter. After that completes, restart your computer. For more information about the Recovery All of the sudden after I uninstalled America Online and needed to reboot, it started saying that my Ntldr was missing.

Can't Recover Vista
Otherwise,in recovery,type:DiskPart In DiskPart,delete partition(s),all if needed,press Esc key,exit recovery,boot to xp cd,install xp. So i used with recovery option of win xp setup and used fixmbr and fixboot command. But it too not worked. Since i wants the data of the C drive i decided to install another

Some Answers
RC>fixmbr RC>fixboot 5) Create the boot.ini file on the XP partition. RC>bootcfg /rebuild Now reboot and enter the BIOS setup. Change the boot device to the XP drive Then when I needed to recover, I would just format the sick C:, boot to the backup drive and copy the backup back to the freshly formatted drive.

Command.com missing or corrupted
FIXBOOT The fixboot command writes a new boot partition sector to the system partition. The command is simply fixboot [drive] where drive is the drive letter where the Password-Specifies the password needed to access the shared resource. Leave blank to produce a prompt for the password. ? /d-Indicates that this

emergancy!!! WINXP BOOT DISK NEEDED!
All that is needed is the boot sector to get the boot process started by finding C:\ntldr. The Recovery Console's FIXBOOT command probably is enough to write the boot sector and, if necessary, update C:\boot.ini. The in-place upgrade will do that for sure. The problems you see in other newsgroup posts may be from

Boot help needed
DOS, run FIXBOOT C: and is ok now. Peter "Jim" <n...@null.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:aFH7c.48631$Zp.34748@fed1read07... You need/needed to do an XP So now each time you get one or the other running, it's replacing its own boot loader over the other (that's what the SYS command did, you killed the XP boot

URGENT - Help Needed with TOTAL System Restore
No Name Needed non...@noplace.com microsoft public windowsxp setup_deployment Why not just delete everything you don't want from Drive C, Which command should I use, FIXMBR or FIXBOOT? I got the impression FIXMBR could be destructive. Since E: was never a system partition, should I avoid it one or both commands

RESQFLPPY
... always boots to a Grub command prompt. I want my old bootloader screen back at startup. 4. After trolling around bulletin boards for a while, I found that i needed to run fdisk /mbr - I did this, but the startup situation is unchanged. I also tried fixboot and fixmbr from the W2K emergency console - no change.

Make new hard drive bootable
To fix booting the Vista drive, use the bootrec command from the Vista DVD <http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;927392>. Then boot the Vista DVD, select repair, and run command prompt. Execute bootrec /rebuildbcd and bootrec /fixboot. The Vista disk drive should now be bootable.

xp i me dual boot popravak
... the bootsect.dos file needed to boot win98, you may need to use attrib c:\bootsect.dos -s -h -r command. 4- insert win2000 CD and boot from it. 5- you will be asked to install or repair choose repair, follow the repair screens (entering password for administrator...). 6- at the c:\windows prompt type: FIXBOOT,