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Upgrade reverted to old OS
Mike Kolitz wrote: Gan, I've gotten that message when I used the FixBoot command too, and I don't think it means that anything is really, terribly wrong, although it certainly sounds that way. It sounds to me that a simple re-install of XP over itself will fix your problem. You'll no doubt need to reinstall your RH

Sysprep and Boot.ini
You should be able to replace the owner on the folders needed. -----Original Message----- To give a short history, I had a 60GB hard drive with Windows XP I tried using the Windows Recovery Console to no success, I tried doing a Repair from the Windows XP CD to no avail, I tried the fixboot command with no

Instalar w98 en otro disco duro teniendo windows xp
And yes, fdisk /mbr is like XP's fixboot command. Is it possible to have all 3 working and even under one boot loader? I'm open to ideas from third party software also. I have partition magic pro 7, if it is needed. The boot.ini file looks healthy. For the Win98 line it reads: D:\="Microsoft Windows 98".

JFS Chkdsk on 460GB volume
have a look at the Syntax of the Commands, such as FIXMBR FIXBOOT BOOTCFG MAP DISKPART CHKDSK Use a the "/?" Switch with them (or use HELP <Command>) to find out the 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,

Disk Drive Overlay Help Needed
Run "fixmbr" and "fixboot" from the command line. You may have to manually add Windows 98 to the boot.ini on C:\. See http://zurich.ai.mit.edu/hypermail/thinkpad/2001-01/0576.html for more information on that (I think fixboot does that, but I'm not 100% sure, but it's easy to edit by hand any ways). If C: is NTFS,

Advice on Multiboot needed please
Assuming that it used to do so and it has XP installed on it: either the files needed to boot are damaged (try Recovery Console and fixboot command) or the drive itself is flakey. Sharon "Bill" <do...@pacbell.net> wrote in message news:hA8v8.37787$%A.3246454@news1.west.cox.net... Out of the 'blue' winxp pro is

Primary Hard Disk Failure
DOS file needed to boot Win98/Me. For = your convenience, you can download READ.SCR here. I suggest you use = right click and Save As. You may need to use the ATTRIB C:\BOOTSECT.DOS = -S -H -R command if BOOTSECT.DOS already exists and you get an error = when trying to recreate it. 5) Configure your computer to

Help needed on the topic BOOT SECTOR VIRUSES
DOS file needed to boot Win98/Me. For your convenience, you can download READ.SCR here. I suggest you use right click and Save As. You may need to use the ATTRIB C:\BOOTSECT.DOS -S -H -R command if BOOTSECT.DOS already exists and you get an error when trying to recreate it. 5) Configure your computer to boot from

Help needed with recovery nightmare
If your OS is W2K you could boot to the recovery console (from a CD if necessary) and use the Fixboot command. Research that a little firsdt. 3. If your OS is NT, (I do it every couple of years on an as-needed basis, then forget again. I am surprised the boot tables got scrambled in this circumstance.

Urgent help needed
That in turn has code specific to the operating system on that partition, that loads whatever file from the partition is needed to continue the boot (eg IO.SYS and MSDOS.SYS for DOS or Win98; ntldr in the case of XP). The Fixboot command writes a standard XP PBR in the first sector of the partition it has been told

Problema de arranque (prometo traducirlo despues completo solo ...
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. It also marks bad sectors and recovers readable information. The /p switch instructs CHKDSK to do an exhaustive check of the drive even if the drive is not marked with

Boot sector
DOS file needed to boot Win98/Me. For your convenience, you will find READ.SCR attached. I suggest you use right click and Save As. You may need to use the ATTRIB C:\BOOTSECT.DOS -S -H -R command if BOOTSECT.DOS already exists and you get an error when trying to recreate it. 5) Configure your computer to boot from

Urgent help needed
You should verify the active status of the partitions and if needed return the active flag to the original System Partition. John Tony Sperling wrote: 3- Boot to the XP Recovery console and issue commands: fixmbr and if necessary fixboot That should restore the XP ntldr boot manager. After doing the fix clean

Alcohol problem
I actually found sys to be useful in cases where I copied all files from one partition into another one - the sys command was needed still to make the new partition bootable. I think this task can be accomplished with the fixboot command, if I am not mistaken? Thanks again for your help.

Boot help needed
createwin...@gmail.com microsoft public windowsxp general Dear G4WFT, Try giving the command chkdsk /r in a cmd prompt and reboot. This is needed anyway based on the number of live power downs you have done. May help. 73's CreateWindow http://mymessagetaker.com The while-you-were-out message program you have been

Help needed with recovery nightmare
Even if you have the 'professional' version and have that enabled, however, you are still limited to the following handful of commands. The most conspicuous command that is missing is 'xcopy' which allows the transfer of all files to another volume while preserving the directory structure. attrib delete fixboot md

Hard Drive install advice please
Once the system begins booting from the CD, simply follow the prompts that will allow the loading of the basic files needed to run Setup. To use the Fixboot tool, from the Recovery Console command prompt, type Fixboot [drive]: Where [drive] is the letter of the drive to which you want to write a new partition

emergancy!!! WINXP BOOT DISK NEEDED!
After you're logged on, type the command FIXBOOT at the command promt (and press enter). After the process is completed successfully, EXIT (type exit <enter>) and the system will reboot...the boot menu should now have the option for booting up Win98 which will should function properly... "Dave Patrick" <Mail@nospam

findpart/editpart help, please! Ran fixboot from Rec Console on ...
Mike Kolitz mike...@mvps.org microsoft public windowsxp general Gan, I've gotten that message when I used the FixBoot command too, and I don't think it means that anything is really, terribly wrong, although it certainly sounds that way. It sounds to me that a simple re-install of XP over itself will fix your

Dual Boot Windows 2000/98
For WinNT/2K/XP, it normally is written by Setup, but can be done with the Recovery Console; I think it's the FIXBOOT command, but check to be sure. When I was upgrading my Win2K to WinXP, I also needed to make its boot volume (D:) bigger. So, I booted to my second installation of Win2K and used xcopy, as above,