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Undertoad · 03-24-2006, 06:31 PM

It was too late for these suggestions but here's what I did. I went ahead and xcopy'd in safe mode, then moved D to C and rebooted with the XP CD. In recovery console I did a fixmbr \Device\HardDisk0. This is apparently the right format. It warned me that I was about the futz my entire partition. I said yes go ahead. Then I did a fixboot c:, which again is apparently the right format. It seemed to do something. Then I did a diskpart and the partitions were as I expected. The first partition was active. Then I rebooted, and it failed to boot from the drive.

I am now installing from scratch, and will xcopy again once this install is done, and we shall see I suppose.

03-24-2006, 06:31 PM	#9
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	It was too late for these suggestions but here's what I did. I went ahead and xcopy'd in safe mode, then moved D to C and rebooted with the XP CD. In recovery console I did a fixmbr \Device\HardDisk0. This is apparently the right format. It warned me that I was about the futz my entire partition. I said yes go ahead. Then I did a fixboot c:, which again is apparently the right format. It seemed to do something. Then I did a diskpart and the partitions were as I expected. The first partition was active. Then I rebooted, and it failed to boot from the drive. I am now installing from scratch, and will xcopy again once this install is done, and we shall see I suppose.