Alright.. It's official.. I'm stupid and XP is worse.. Plz help.

Discussion in 'Software' started by BrandonB, Aug 6, 2006.

  1. BrandonB

    BrandonB Private E-2

    Alright.. We have no idea what happened. I had to replace a fan in my moms computer this morning. Made sure I didn't bump the hd cable. Plugged in.. got something like c:/windows/system32/system missing.

    Pulled comp out.. checked cables again.. all fine.. Bright me.. went and did a fixboot in the recovery console... stupid stupid.. So now the thig is giving the dreaded missing ntldr message. So .. I tried coping the files.. Says access denied..

    It seems to be reporting the hd as 10gb in the "dos". Yet running diskpart shows the full 200gb.


    At this point.. I'm way over my head.. plz help. lol
     
    BrandonB, Aug 6, 2006
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  2. foogoo

    foogoo Major "foogoo" Geek

    foogoo, Aug 6, 2006
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  3. BrandonB

    BrandonB Private E-2

    That looks like it might be what I need.. just one problem.. No floppy drive :(
     
    BrandonB, Aug 6, 2006
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  4. TimW

    TimW MajorGeeks Administrator - Jedi Malware Expert Staff Member

    TimW, Aug 6, 2006
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  5. BrandonB

    BrandonB Private E-2

    Is it possible that my attempted repair messed with the parititon info? I did a dir listing of c after the repair program couldn't find boot.ini. It's all jumbled and something isn't right. It's not reporting any free space. I'm guessing I'm pretty much screwed here, but is there any way to repair a partition?
     
    BrandonB, Aug 6, 2006
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  6. TimW

    TimW MajorGeeks Administrator - Jedi Malware Expert Staff Member

    Do you have an xp disc?
     
    TimW, Aug 6, 2006
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  7. BrandonB

    BrandonB Private E-2

    Thats what i'm trying to repair with.. Gonna see if my UBCD has something on it to look at the partition..
     
    BrandonB, Aug 6, 2006
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  8. TimW

    TimW MajorGeeks Administrator - Jedi Malware Expert Staff Member

    Then I would do a repair not a recovery ....do install when you get to the recovery option ..then f8 to the agreement ...then it will find the xp install and you can choose repair (R) ......it will hopefully save all your files and settings and programs ....just not the updates.
     
    TimW, Aug 6, 2006
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  9. BrandonB

    BrandonB Private E-2

    It's not finding it because of the partition issue. It the instilation side haults when it finds there are 3mb free on the drive.
     
    BrandonB, Aug 6, 2006
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  10. BrandonB

    BrandonB Private E-2

    Yep.. First program I ran said the boot sector was screwed.. showing part fat 12.. part NTFS.. hrm
     
    BrandonB, Aug 6, 2006
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  11. TimW

    TimW MajorGeeks Administrator - Jedi Malware Expert Staff Member

    I think you have no choice but to reformat and do a new install:mad: :mad:
     
    TimW, Aug 6, 2006
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  12. BrandonB

    BrandonB Private E-2

    I'm not giving up that easy.. Still trying things..
     
    BrandonB, Aug 6, 2006
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