Gilbert Ashley
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Joined: Nov. 2003 |
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Posted: Dec. 22 2003,00:36 |
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What a mess, no? I've installed a few XP and W2K systems when I worked at a computer store but never really done the bootsector repair. The bootsector for ntfs is a file called bootsector.bin as I recall. This is what has to be restored. I did learn this though and If you have to reinstall your win system be sure and do this. Create a small first partition (at least 1 MB, preferably 10MB). Create this boot partition as a FAT32 partition. The proceed with your regular install on a ntfs partition. Since XP/W2K must install the bootsector to the first partition it will install bootsector.bin and the ntloader there. This way if you ever have problems you can take any DOS floppy and go in there and fix things. And make a backup of bootsector.bin in case you ever need to restore it. For now you'll have to try the recovery console. Every time I installed DSL it would wipe out my MBR. But since I use Win98 I was always able to repair it. Before restoring it I would run liloconfig in dsl in order to install lilo TO A FLOPPY. This 'lilo to the MBR' mkliloboot thingy is a bad way to make friends!
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