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nouseforaname
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 Posted: Thu, 27th Sep 2007 17:04 Post subject: Windows XP boot record problems |
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so I made a thread before about having problems hooking up another old hard drive to my computer... turns out I did something wrong when I installed windows and now the boot record is all fucked.
I have 1 SATA hd with windows installed on it (says it is the d: drive), 1 IDE hd (c: drive), and one external urb dvd burner (I use this to boot with windows cd).
now, everytime I try to boot my computer without the cd in the drive, I get a corrupt hal.dll message, which I can find all sorts of stuff about when I google. Now, same happens when I try to boot with the IDE drive unplugged (which doesn't have windows on it), or try to plug another HD in.
I've replaced the hal.dll file with a new one from the windows cd, I've tried to use bootcfg.exe / rebuild without any luck .. so you guys got any ideas or what?
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| Posted: Thu, 27th Sep 2007 17:11 Post subject: |
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Start with the CD in the drive, start the setup, choose recovery console, and do the following:
fixmbr c:
fixboot c:
bootcfg /rebuild
That should take care of things. 
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| Posted: Thu, 27th Sep 2007 19:30 Post subject: |
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| LeoNatan wrote: | Start with the CD in the drive, start the setup, choose recovery console, and do the following:
fixmbr c:
fixboot c:
bootcfg /rebuild
That should take care of things. |
When I removed ubuntu from my comp there was the same message, apparently the mbr was corrupted so I did fixmbr, and it worked...NOT. I could boot, but windows was all messed up, had to recover all files and, of course reinstall windows. That taught me not to fuck with mbr... If all works for you then congrads
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| Posted: Thu, 27th Sep 2007 19:32 Post subject: |
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I for a change know how to take care of my partitions and mbr. 
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| Posted: Thu, 27th Sep 2007 19:47 Post subject: |
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i think i had the same once , something about not being able to boot but i dont remember right error message , microsoft site had several solutions , one was copying over your excisting boot.ini with one from a diff computer ( i attached HD into another rig )
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| Posted: Thu, 27th Sep 2007 19:55 Post subject: |
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the SATA hd had a previous windows install on it, but the IDE did not. Also, the boot record (boot.ini) is located on the non-windows IDE as well ...
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| Posted: Thu, 27th Sep 2007 20:01 Post subject: |
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Maybe post the content of your boot.ini, also give us the exact error code, then you may want to run "sfc /scannow" (with the xp cd) to check and replace corrupted system files.
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| Posted: Thu, 27th Sep 2007 23:45 Post subject: |
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[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Windows XP Professional" /Fastdetect
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINDOWS="windows"
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect
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| Posted: Fri, 28th Sep 2007 00:31 Post subject: |
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 Right, well they all point to the same location, so you can remove two. |
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try setting the SATA drive as the active drive and set the windows partition as the active partition (google how to do those steps with diskpart), then do the steps i told you to do earlier.
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"This device cannot find free resources that it can use" (code 12), it looks like a devices conflict, this VAXSCSI controller is part of Alcohol 120% isn't it? Try to disable that and reboot.
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