psychoticDEMENTO Posted August 6, 2004 Share Posted August 6, 2004 i reformatted my MBR and now it says missing operating system! i dont have a startup disk either...what do i do!? PLEASE HELP!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
psychoticDEMENTO Posted August 6, 2004 Author Share Posted August 6, 2004 sory to bump but this is really serious!!!! i cant lose the stuff on here! please help!! :cry: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bioslayer Posted August 6, 2004 Share Posted August 6, 2004 You got to get to a command prompt somehow and let me look up the command real fast I forgot. *Edit* ok its FIXMBR from the recovery console. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
psychoticDEMENTO Posted August 6, 2004 Author Share Posted August 6, 2004 You got to get to a command prompt somehow and let me look up the command real fast I forgot. lijke recovery console? cuz i have a WIN95B boot disk...but tahts it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marseille07 Posted August 6, 2004 Share Posted August 6, 2004 put your XP CD in, boot it up, go to rescue mode, type in fixmbr. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bioslayer Posted August 6, 2004 Share Posted August 6, 2004 Here is a quote from http://www.ntfs.com/mbr-damaged.htm The simplest way to repair or re-create MBR is to run Microsoft's standard utility called FDISK with a parameter /MBR, like A:\> FDISK.EXE /MBR Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
erp Posted August 6, 2004 Share Posted August 6, 2004 get to another XP computer and make a boot floppy or get a windows CD and boot from it, use the FIXMBR command at the repair console. Not much else you can do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nexus- Posted August 6, 2004 Share Posted August 6, 2004 if you dont have a bootable xp cd how did you install xp in the first place? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
psychoticDEMENTO Posted August 6, 2004 Author Share Posted August 6, 2004 Here is a quote from http://www.ntfs.com/mbr-damaged.htmThe simplest way to repair or re-create MBR is to run Microsoft's standard utility called FDISK with a parameter /MBR, like A:\> FDISK.EXE /MBR i ran that and i did fixmbr from recovery console..that still didnt work..it just says error loading operating system... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
psychoticDEMENTO Posted August 6, 2004 Author Share Posted August 6, 2004 if you dont have a bootable xp cd how did you install xp in the first place? no i dont have a boot disk as in startup disc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
erp Posted August 6, 2004 Share Posted August 6, 2004 No MBR, and no boot disk, hmmm.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Veteran Posted August 6, 2004 Veteran Share Posted August 6, 2004 Use your Windows CD and boot off that. At the first screen, press R. You'll have to log onto your Windows installation on the hard drive (administrator password required) and then you'll be at a command prompt. This is where you type fixmbr and then reboot (Y) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sn1p3t Posted August 6, 2004 Share Posted August 6, 2004 If that doesnt work, do a reinstall of XP (no format), backup your stuff, and then do a clean format. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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