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re: MBR wiped, now cant boot windows XP
Saturday, March 5, 2005 at 3:26 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Tang
(186 messages posted)
You will have to reinstall Window XP. If you are using ghost, you should creat image
of your entire hard disk after you have installed XP and all applications. Creating
individual image per OS will not work in the future. However, you can creat individual
image for the partition for "stuff".
On Saturday, March 5, 2005 at 3:08 am, Nathan wrote:
>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)
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