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MBR wiped, now cant boot windows XP
Saturday, March 5, 2005 at 3:08 am
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Posted by Nathan (107 messages posted)


Heya all, I have a hard disk with 3 partitions
c:\ Windows 98
d:\ Stuff
e:\ Windows XP
I installed windows 98 first, then I installed windows XP onto the E:. It worked 
fine until today, when i ghosted another windows98 image off another machine (that 
was set to c:\). So now it can only boot into windows 98. I am kicking myself because 
the MBR has been overwritten, i had no backups, and because windows xp needed to 
point to c: in order to boot, i dont have the original system files. I wonder if 
this has happened to anyone else. I am not too worried tho, because i have ghosted 
my XP image I can just re-install windows xp to the e: again and then once setup 
has changed the mbr again, i can reghost it, but i wonder if theirs any advice anyone 
can give me to install windows xp that doesnt point to the primary partition (so 
i can use OSLoader to boot it instead)



Responses to this message:
*re: MBR wiped, now cant boot windows XP (Tang: Saturday, March 5, 2005 at 3:26 am)
*re: MBR wiped, now cant boot windows XP (Falcon: Saturday, March 5, 2005 at 6:34 am)
*re: MBR wiped, now cant boot windows XP (Dan Sarandrea, MCSE: Saturday, March 5, 2005 at 8:42 am)

All messages in this thread [show all]
-MBR wiped, now cant boot windows XP (Nathan: Sat, Mar 5, 2005, 3:08 am)
-re: MBR wiped, now cant boot windows XP (Tang: Sat, Mar 5, 2005, 3:26 am)
-re: MBR wiped, now cant boot windows XP (Nathan: Sat, Mar 5, 2005, 3:47 am)
*re: MBR wiped, now cant boot windows XP (Steve Dunn: Sat, Mar 5, 2005, 4:45 am)
*re: MBR wiped, now cant boot windows XP (Falcon: Sat, Mar 5, 2005, 6:34 am)
*re: MBR wiped, now cant boot windows XP (Dan Sarandrea, MCSE: Sat, Mar 5, 2005, 8:42 am)
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