Defrag Caused Major Problems

[Guest]

I did a defrag today in Safe mode. I got the report at the end that everything went OK.

Tried to reboot to go into XP Home as normal, I only have 1 HD od 120GB size. My PC narmally only boots to HD0, but it seemed to look for the floppy, thed cd1, cd2 and I think it tried to boot from network.

I booted up againg using XP CD and tried fixboot from the recovery consoul and same problem. In recovery consoul using dos I can view all files in my HD so presume that there is a problem with bootloader, I start to get a bit out my depth here. I also tried a clean install and was told that the disk was of an unnamed ( may have been unsuported or something ) and would have to be deleted before a new install is able to be done.

I would prefer not to do a delete then install as I would like to try and solve this as I am sure it is a simple fix, I just don;t know how.

Any help or advice would be very welcome

 

[Dingo]

If you are running a program like Evidence Eliminator, that may be the
problem. If you stopped it mid-cycle, it will cause the problem you
described.

I did a defrag today in Safe mode. I got the report at the end that everything went OK.

Tried to reboot to go into XP Home as normal, I only have 1 HD od 120GB

size. My PC narmally only boots to HD0, but it seemed to look for the
floppy, thed cd1, cd2 and I think it tried to boot from network.

I booted up againg using XP CD and tried fixboot from the recovery consoul

and same problem. In recovery consoul using dos I can view all files in my
HD so presume that there is a problem with bootloader, I start to get a bit
out my depth here. I also tried a clean install and was told that the disk
was of an unnamed ( may have been unsuported or something ) and would have
to be deleted before a new install is able to be done.

I would prefer not to do a delete then install as I would like to try and

solve this as I am sure it is a simple fix, I just don;t know how.