Fixmbr kills windows

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Anyone ever get it to work in XP? I removed Lycoris on two computer,
reformatted the partition and tried to get rid of grub with fxmbr but then
the C drive was unbootable. I tried all the commands listed by none worked
so I had to reformt C and totally reinstall. I've often used format /mbr
before and it never made C unbootable.
 
I, always, use this sequence: fixmbr, followed by fixboot. Used it, in
fact, to make a dual boot out of a recovery disc installation of XP, with
Win2k.

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rAD said:
Anyone ever get it to work in XP? I removed Lycoris on two computer,
reformatted the partition and tried to get rid of grub with fxmbr but then
the C drive was unbootable. I tried all the commands listed by none worked
so I had to reformt C and totally reinstall. I've often used format /mbr
before and it never made C unbootable.
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in Windows XP you should boot your XP Cd and go into the repair console,
there you will find FIXBOOT or FIXMBR, can't remember the exact wording but
one or the other replaces the fix/mbr dos command.

Regards, Rene Lamontagne

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Rene Lamontagne said:
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in Windows XP you should boot your XP Cd and go into the repair console,
there you will find FIXBOOT or FIXMBR, can't remember the exact wording but
one or the other replaces the fix/mbr dos command.

Regards, Rene Lamontagne

(e-mail address removed)
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yep, two times, no luck
 
rAD said:
Anyone ever get it to work in XP? I removed Lycoris on two computer,
reformatted the partition and tried to get rid of grub with fxmbr but then
the C drive was unbootable. I tried all the commands listed by none worked
so I had to reformt C and totally reinstall. I've often used format /mbr
before and it never made C unbootable.
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I swapped a motherboard/cpu/ram for completely (Intel->AMD, Intel->Via,
PC133->DDR) different components. The winxp repair terminal mode won't
really help when you do this, and I'm guessing something mildly similar
is happenning with you. I went through with the winxp bootable cdrom as
if I were resintalling rather than going to the recovery terminal. It
took a while, but it reinstalled and repaired itself to a fully
functioning system. I know this comes late for you, but perhaps someone
else trawling the usenet archives in the future will benefit.

Ari

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rAD said:
Anyone ever get it to work in XP? I removed Lycoris on two computer,
reformatted the partition and tried to get rid of grub with fxmbr but then
the C drive was unbootable. I tried all the commands listed by none worked
so I had to reformt C and totally reinstall. I've often used format /mbr
before and it never made C unbootable.
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you should have booted from the XP cd then run

either fixmbr or fixboot

your problem might have been running fdisk /mbr from a floppy

AFAIK a "dos" bootsector is not the same as one used by NT
 
rAD said:
I did


I didn't


It remains a mystery. Maybe it has something to do with Lycoris.
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is grub still there???
if grub is still there after running both fixmbr and fixboot...

then i suppose you could try the boot floppy method and do a fidisk /mbr

*then* boot with the XP cd and try fixmbr
 
I did


I didn't


It remains a mystery. Maybe it has something to do with Lycoris.
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It might be a bit late but this little program might be useful:

MBRWiz is a command line tool designed to directly modify the MBR, with
the capability to set partitions active for booting, delete or hide
partitions, back up and restore copies of the MBR, as well as sort the
partition entries.

the site is : http://mbr.bigr.net/

Jim
 
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