Hi Clint and all,
Long time no post. Perhaps choosing the fixboot command in
the Repair
Console after booting from the XP CD would help. Possibly
editing the
boot.ini file manually would help.
HTH,
Chuck
Original Message:
Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2006 06:18:32 -0600
From: "Support-OrpheusComputing.com"
<support1 orpheuscomputing.com>
Subject: PCWorks: Restoring the MBR: How the heck do you RUN
MbrFix.exe??
Won't run in DOS and it won't run in XP!
I'm hoping someone is familiar with this program, or knows
how
to restore the MBR.
I don't understand this. I've d'loaded MbrFix.exe and no
where
do they state, what to do next!
http://www
.sysint.no/nedlasting/mbrfix.htm . I put it on a
floppy and it's not bootable! I put in on a BOOTABLE floppy
and tried to run it, and it actually says "This program
cannot
be run in DOS"!!!! It can't be run in Windows either!
So, how
the heck do you run it? Murmur chants??
I made the fatal mistake of putting that POS Ghost (2003) on
a
customer's PC and now the HD is toast. I tried to create a
backup with an external HD in a USB enclosure (something I
always do with NO PROBLEM), and it kept hanging and
crashing/freezing up while in that Ghost PC-DOS area. I
tried
several times, same thing. Then, when I tried to get back
into
XP, the damn thing wouldn't boot!! I would choose the
option
to cancel then boot back into XP and it just sat there and
did
nothing. If I'd get to a screen where it says Ghost failed,
and it "would return to XP in X seconds", it never
did!! This
is BS, doesn't work.
http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT/gh
ost.nsf/docid/2002110115000025?Ope
n&src=bar_sch_nam&docid=2002092510522725&nsf=gho
st.nsf&view=8f7dc13883056
3c888256c2200662ecd&dtype=&prod=&ver=&osv=&a
mp;osv_lvl=
Ghreboot and Gdisk was a total waste of time.
I tried ptedit.exe http://w
ww.goodells.net/multiboot/ptedit.htm
recommend here:
http://archive.midrange.com/pctech/200507/msg00018.html and did
what that dude said that FIXED his EXACT problem as mine,
but
it didn't do JACK other than make things worse!
I tried booting off the XP CD and doing a "repair"
and "fixmbr"
and it said it FIXED IT, DONE, yet when I try and boot it
says
"DISK BOOT FAILURE".
I even tried hooking up the HD to my PC, going into the
Admin
tools area and Computer Management, then deleting that
"spawned
from hell" Ghost 8mb partition, and that didn't even
work!!
**ALL** of the files are STILL THERE on the HD; Windows,
Program Files, even all the boot.ini, autoexec.bat, ntldr,
etc., files!
So POH-LEEZE can someone tell me how to make this #%$&!
drive
so it can boot back into XP??
Thank you,
- -Clint
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