XP Pro MBR fix on SATA drive

howdy all,

Ok, new situation kicking my azz. Have a client that boned the MBR on his Windows XP Professional box by installing GoBack, which of course died and left him unbootable.

Drive is on a SATA controller. So the GoBack fix CD hangs during bootup cuz it can't read the drive. Same with Powerquest bootup CD. Booting off a floppy into DOS, same problem, cant see SATA drive.

I dropped in an XP Pro CD and tried to repair and/or do a parallel install, but "Windows XP cannot recognize the partition you selected". I think it's a dynamic disk.

Next try is to drop the drive into another box, but I need to look up how to affect the MBR of the secondary drive.

Toss any ideas you want this way, short of wipe and re-install.

thanks for all constructive input,

Jim Peterson
Computing Solutions

well did you try booting into the recovery console and running fixboot or fixmbr?

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Drive is on a SATA controller. So the GoBack fix CD hangs during bootup cuz it can't read the drive. Same with Powerquest bootup CD. Booting off a floppy into DOS, same problem, cant see SATA drive.

I dropped in an XP Pro CD and tried to repair and/or do a parallel install, but "Windows XP cannot recognize the partition you selected". I think it's a dynamic disk.

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Sounds like real bad news. If you can't access the drive to do an easy fixmbr (as phishhead suggest) then what can you do ? GoBack has been known to hose HD's

Well you can try things in this thread http://www.sysopt.com/forum/showthre...hreadid=192148

Good luck so you won't need this

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short of wipe and re-install.

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[edit]= BTW just to let you know, awhile back I got a HD hosed by GoBack and none of the HD wipe tools would work because they couldn't see the drive :eek: Don't remember what Distro but one of the Linux Live cd's could see the drive (don't know why) so I used that to wipe & format.

If you get things sorted tell your client to use one of the following..

FirstDefense-ISR

RollBack Rx

ShadowUser

Acronis True Image

Look and see if the preboot environment shows a go back option...( like pressing F11 or something similar)

If so boot into that and I believe it gives the option of disabling Go Back.


*p.o.s. go back*