Hello all, Last night I deleted my Solaris partition and tried to load my remaining XP. I got "no operating system found" message. I tried fixmbr with no arguments but it did nothing. I then tried to run fixmbr with argument multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1) as the default was with partition(0) which was my solaris partition I guess. After that I rebooted and got the same message. When trying to enter the recovery console I can't see my windows in the OS list and I only get c:> prompt. Running dir returns "An error occurred during directory enumeration. Running chkdsk returns "The volume appear to contain one or more unrecoverable problems". What can I do now? p.s I'm running my system on an HP laptop with one physical drive Thanks a lot.

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I would suggest trying 'fixboot' from the recovery console. If that doesn't work I think a 'Repair Install' might be called for. Note that it will remove all Microsoft updates. Repair install help: http://www.dougknox.com/xp/tips/xp_...

If solaris was on C: drive when you deleted it you also deleted all the xp boot files. Regardless of what partition/drive you install XP it installs the boot files on C:

Some clarifications: My OS menu before deletion was Grub. I first installed XP and then Solaris. I deleted the Solaris partition using the XP bootable CD because Solaris stopped working (even its liveCD stuck when loading windowing system). After the Solaris removal I tried to recover XP with fixmbr. Before running it I could see my XP partition in the recovery console (also could see WINDOWS directory and all my directories. I received Access Denied when trying to enter other directories), and in the XP installation program. After running fixmbr on the XP partition I cannot see it in the recovery console (as I mentioned earlier) and from XP installation program I can see: C: Partition1 [Unknown] 18999 MB < 18998 MB free > That is also what map command returns from the recovery console (I can see C: with \Device\Harddisk0\Partition1 in the same line). The only commands I ran is fixmbr (did nothing), fixboot and "fixmbr \Device\Harddisl0\Partition1" (one of the last two cause my files to disappear). Thanks