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Hi
I am running xp on a new seagate 320
momentus
I partitioned it as follows:
10Gb (for scratch disk for adobe programs)
40Gb (Primary OS)
40Gb (Secondary OS)
100Gb (primary media)
100Gb (secondary media)I just finished setting up Xp (drivers, programs,
tweaks) on my primary OS partition when I
installed another instance of XP on the 10Gb
scratchdisk partition (do not ask me why, it
was late etc etc)
As I reboot, I can now only boot from the
newest install on the 10Gb scratch disk.
I assume that the latest xp install has altered
the MBR but as I have never played around
with these things before so I need advice.
Right now I am trying a few things to see if I
can fix the problem without actually
understanding it :)
I have aquired Norton Partition magic, Fdisk
and the newest Ubuntu install image.
If Fdisk or patition magic does not offer any
immediate way of rewriting the MBR (if that IS
the problem) I was thinking that a Linux install
might be able to do so....
Any ideas are welcome :)
(I know that reinstalling would probably be
faster, but I might just learn something usefull
while trying to solve this.Regards
Rune
when you boot from the cd, press R, not ENTER.
a black screen will pop up
write "fixboot" and "fixmbr" without the quotes
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fdisk and partition magic does not seem to offer any solution as
far as my sparse knowledge goes.. tried making the original
system partition active instead of the 10gb partition , now xp
freezes after the logon screen
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maybe I am doing something wrong, cause as far as I remember
I already tried what you suggest before...
I enter the xp setup and and no matter what partition I choose,
nothing happens when I press R
In the bottom of the screen I on have the 3 options:
Enter for install, D for delete partition and F3 for quit
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donøt know if it has something to do with the xp version, it is an
xp pro, (might be corporate as I am not being prompted to enter
serial upon install), got it from a family member who has a big
company so it is likely I guess
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"press any key to boot from cd" THEN
Windows setup "windows is loading files" THEN
Windows XP Professional Setup "enter for install, D for delete
and F3 for quit
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oh, i have never seen such a windows xp cd, don`t know
but, go here
you can learn how to install xp recovery console and how to use it
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cool, ty I will look into that.
I think my install CD has been slipstreamed with serial and sp3
and updates by the company ITsupport , this could account for
the lacking repair maybe?
I think I might have an old original xp cd somewhere gonna give it
a try
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followed your link but it still does not work... when I run the
specified cmd I get a msg in the lines of "file not found on cd"'
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this is so ennoying.. I need this machine for work so I might give
up soon and do a clean install...
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oh mate
can you find your original xp disk ( i think you`re trying with sp3 cd )
that can be the problem
or burn a cd from internet
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ok, I can not find my old original xp disk anymore so I guess I¨ll
have to find one on the web.
Any ideas for search terms to find an unmodified version?
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It would not have mattered anyway since the MBR isn't the issue. It is booting isn't it?
You have 5 partitions on this disk. Which are primary and which are logical drives in an extended partition? You can only have 4 primary partitions.
We need to edit the boot.ini so you have your other boot.
To do so I need to know how these partitions are setup and what drive letters were assigned to them before you installed to the scratch disk.
according to this:
10Gb (for scratch disk for adobe programs)
40Gb (Primary OS)
40Gb (Secondary OS)
100Gb (primary media)
100Gb (secondary media)the 10gig would be c:
40gig d:
40gig e:
100gig f:
100gig g:Is this correct?
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That is how it looked before I started tampering I think.
ahaa
I whish I had read your post a few hours ago as I may have
obscured matters even further with norton and fdisk..
I have changed driver letters with norton and switched
between active disks ... from xp setup it now looks as
follows:
10gb H:
40gb C:
40gb D:
100gb E:
115gb F:in FDISK it looks as follows:
10gb
40gb
255gb
Logical partition:
40gb
100gb
115gbas implied I have no important data on the disks, I merely
need the laptop for work soon and I wanted to learn
something new instead of giving up and reinstalling. I am
looking forward to reading your suggestions,
g2g to work now, will resume this later, ty for trying :)
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Using fdisk make the 40gig the active partition.
Restart the pc and lets see if it boots to c: again.
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