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GaryRouth · 09-30-2004, 01:31 PM

Hmmm - I had this little bell ringing in my memory about a trick I'd read about a while back, and so I checked, and may have something that can be a quick repair. Here's an article from over at AnandTech's Operating System FAQs pages: http://www.anandtech.com/guides/viewfaq.aspx?i=90

I wasn't clear in my original reply, sorry about that - I was referring to the XP recovery console, not the Win2k one. I was thinking that a repair begun from the XP CD would yield the XP bootloader once again (rather than the Win2k) - but I like Anandtech's idea even better, since it involves simply copying over the XP bootloader and XP's NTdetect from the XP CD (to the Win2k root) . Should be a much faster repair.

In answer to your fixboot questions: I'll have to check my XP/2k books for the details -to be entirely sure - & get back to you. My first guess would be that XP's fixboot would work - not sure about 2k's.
. . . Gary

[I'll be able to check back in tonight after a few interviews, and after my daughter's gymnastics class]

09-30-2004, 01:31 PM	#7
GaryRouth Member (12 bit) Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: Woodland Hills, CA (suburb of Los Angeles) Posts: 4,014	Hmmm - I had this little bell ringing in my memory about a trick I'd read about a while back, and so I checked, and may have something that can be a quick repair. Here's an article from over at AnandTech's Operating System FAQs pages: http://www.anandtech.com/guides/viewfaq.aspx?i=90 I wasn't clear in my original reply, sorry about that - I was referring to the XP recovery console, not the Win2k one. I was thinking that a repair begun from the XP CD would yield the XP bootloader once again (rather than the Win2k) - but I like Anandtech's idea even better, since it involves simply copying over the XP bootloader and XP's NTdetect from the XP CD (to the Win2k root) . Should be a much faster repair. In answer to your fixboot questions: I'll have to check my XP/2k books for the details -to be entirely sure - & get back to you. My first guess would be that XP's fixboot would work - not sure about 2k's. . . . Gary [I'll be able to check back in tonight after a few interviews, and after my daughter's gymnastics class]