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Answer» hi everyone its nice to be here basically about a week ago my computer became unable to boot properly and the only way to get into WINDOWS was to hold f8 and boot using the cdrom drive. ive tried CHANGING the boot order in bios and disabling the floppy which i thought was the problem but that didnt work. then i tried booting up with a windows xp floppy boot disk and it worked. i was told to use fixmbr to FIX the master boot record in order to boot normally again. my problem is when i go into recovery console from the xp disc it gives me the option to run the recovery console on the c drive or the d drive. however i have a partition and do not use my c drive; i want to run fixmbr for the e drive (the partitioned drive) but it does not show up as an option. does anyone lnow what to do in this situation or do i just run fixmbr on the c drive? thank youQuote from: underscore04 on July 05, 2010, 05:45:00 PM ... 1. when i go into recovery console from the xp disc it gives me the option to run the recovery console on the c drive or the d drive. 2. however i have a partition and do not use my c drive; 3. i want to run fixmbr for the e drive (the partitioned drive) but it does not show up as an option. does anyone lnow what to do in this situation or do i just run fixmbr on the c drive? ... 1. OK 2. Not according to Recovery Console, which says C or D. 3. E is not an option because Windows is not LOCATED there.thanks for the quick response so just to be completely sure there is no way to run it on the e drive and running on the c drive will not screw up the partition? What makes you so sure the E-drive is the boot drive? How are booting Windows with the cdrom? I would attempt a repair install: http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm Read it very carefully & follow the instructions to the letter. thanks so much i will try this the reason i think the e drive is the boot device is because i have two instances of xp installed on my system and when i turn on the computer i am asked which installation i would like to log into, the installation i use uses the e drive. hi, so i completed the repair install and it hasn't fixed the booting problem basically whenever i turn on the computer it freezes when booting at the floppy disk any way to fix this? Have you considered backing up what you need and wiping the drives and doing a proper XP install ? ?yes i have actually, ive backed up everything important just in case but im hoping not to have to do a clean install unless it becomes completely necessary I'd say from the look of things it's GETTING closer to neccessary than you think...but Best of Luck either way...thanks

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hi everyone its nice to be here
basically about a week ago my computer became unable to boot properly and the only way to get into WINDOWS was to hold f8 and boot using the cdrom drive. ive tried CHANGING the boot order in bios and disabling the floppy which i thought was the problem but that didnt work. then i tried booting up with a windows xp floppy boot disk and it worked. i was told to use fixmbr to FIX the master boot record in order to boot normally again. my problem is when i go into recovery console from the xp disc it gives me the option to run the recovery console on the c drive or the d drive. however i have a partition and do not use my c drive; i want to run fixmbr for the e drive (the partitioned drive) but it does not show up as an option. does anyone lnow what to do in this situation or do i just run fixmbr on the c drive?
thank youQuote from: underscore04 on July 05, 2010, 05:45:00 PM

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1. when i go into recovery console from the xp disc it gives me the option to run the recovery console on the c drive or the d drive.
2. however i have a partition and do not use my c drive;
3. i want to run fixmbr for the e drive (the partitioned drive) but it does not show up as an option. does anyone lnow what to do in this situation or do i just run fixmbr on the c drive?
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1. OK
2. Not according to Recovery Console, which says C or D.
3. E is not an option because Windows is not LOCATED there.thanks for the quick response
so just to be completely sure there is no way to run it on the e drive and running on the c drive will not screw up the partition? What makes you so sure the E-drive is the boot drive?
How are booting Windows with the cdrom?

I would attempt a repair install: http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm
Read it very carefully & follow the instructions to the letter.
thanks so much i will try this
the reason i think the e drive is the boot device is because i have two instances of xp installed on my system and when i turn on the computer i am asked which installation i would like to log into, the installation i use uses the e drive. hi, so i completed the repair install and it hasn't fixed the booting problem basically whenever i turn on the computer it freezes when booting at the floppy disk any way to fix this? Have you considered backing up what you need and wiping the drives and doing a proper XP install ? ?yes i have actually, ive backed up everything important just in case but im hoping not to have to do a clean install unless it becomes completely necessary I'd say from the look of things it's GETTING closer to neccessary than you think...but Best of Luck either way...thanks

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