well did you try booting into the recovery console and running fixboot or fixmbr?
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
Last edited by Gersen; August 4th, 2006 at 00:28 AM.
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'sDrive 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.
Well you can try things in this thread http://www.sysopt.com/forum/showthre...hreadid=192148
Good luck so you won't need this[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 driveshort of wipe and re-install.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
Last edited by FastGame; August 4th, 2006 at 01:56 AM.
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*
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