MBR needs altering
Started by
Shamancio
, Jun 11 2005 10:26 AM
#1
Posted 11 June 2005 - 10:26 AM
#2
Posted 11 June 2005 - 04:55 PM
Firstly, may I ask why you reckon its the MBR that needs repairing?
Secondly, did you create the partitions on the laptops drive to be NTFS or FAT32?
Secondly, did you create the partitions on the laptops drive to be NTFS or FAT32?
#3
Posted 12 June 2005 - 11:33 AM
ok, I did it all from another computer, so the mbr was signed on that computer, and that is why I reckon its the mbr, I repaired it, and then it sayed no active partition could be found, it was formatted in ntfs, and if its not active, is this as simple as putting in my other machine, make it so it boots up to the OS on that drive, take it out and put it in the laptop?
#4
Posted 12 June 2005 - 12:59 PM
You can partition & format a drive using another computer, but if that drive is installed as a secondary drive, it often won't be made active, as you can only have one active partition/drive in a system at a time.
You also don't want to install the OS whilst the drive is in another machine.
It doesn't sound like theres anything wrong with the MBR except that the drive hasn't been made active.
If you go to this link & download the 'Windows XP system setup disk' - single floppy disk version, you can boot your system from it, with the drive installed, run fdisk from the floppy & just make the drive active using that.
http://freepctech.co.../files010.shtml
You also don't want to install the OS whilst the drive is in another machine.
It doesn't sound like theres anything wrong with the MBR except that the drive hasn't been made active.
If you go to this link & download the 'Windows XP system setup disk' - single floppy disk version, you can boot your system from it, with the drive installed, run fdisk from the floppy & just make the drive active using that.
http://freepctech.co.../files010.shtml
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