XP Pro MBR fix on SATA drive

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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