fix mbr under DOS

[Marcin]

I need someone clever to tell me how I can fix master boot record under DOS by program which will be contained in one floppy.

I tried ranish partition manager but without success.

I will describe shortly my problem : I have no bootable cd-rom. I can only boot from floppy. I created partitions under fdisk. There is full XP installation files on D:\ XP copied files and after reboot I got message : ntldr is missing ...

I read somewhere that is mbr problem. I must fix it. The most easy method is fixmbr under recovery console but it is impossible without optical drive. I'm right ? Please help

[andamus]

Hi, here you can download an utility from Microsoft used to create the 6 installation floppy for Win XP PRO http://download.microsoft.com/download/whistler/Install/SP1/W98NT42KMeXP/EN-US/winxpsp1_en_pro_bf.exe

while here it's the same utility for Win XP Home http://download.microsoft.com/download/WinXPHome/Install/310994/WIN98MeXP/IT/WinXP_IT_HOM_BF.EXE

[Marcin]

ha that is propably what I need if there will be recovery console. I read hundreds of M$ support pages but nowhere was mentioned about these floppies. Thanks andamus

[andamus]

Yes with this floppies you boot the pc in the same way as the cd-rom. The resque of windows installation is normal routine for me

[hugo929]

[Marcin]

thanks hugo but that not solve problem for windows 2k/xp/2k3 for 9x yes

[Marcin]

recovery console didn't help me before last disk (6th) was loaded I got blue screens with 00000x... errors. After spent 18 hours I can say you can do everything with : partition magic 8.05 + ranish partition manager + mbrwizzard

if HDD isn't physical damaged

[andamus]

can you tell me exactly what is the BSOD error?

[Marcin]