Repair/FDISK your Master Boot Record!

Sleepless · Nov 15, 2009 12:11 PM

I've not tried it on XP but I have been in that situation many a times with Windows 7 and windows vista partitions. Win7 and vista recovery/boot disk you can launch command prompt. Always worked. Not sure if the commands are the same because they xp and vista have diff boot loader. boot in to command prompt. x:> diskpart diskpart> listdisk ( this will list the disks you have ) select disk 0 ( zero is the first hard drive) list part ( to know how many partitions you have) select part 1 ( where 1 is the first partition where xp was, select 2 if xp was the second partition) active ( this will make the partition active) orrrr.... just to x:> bootrec/fixmbr ( fixes master boot rec which is used to boot)

yellow · Nov 15, 2009 12:17 PM

Can you please explain how to do that and I don't have any CDs. Last edited: 15-Nov-09 12:19 PM

ram kumari · Nov 15, 2009 12:18 PM

Do you have windows vista boot disk ? The above process works flawlessly with that I've not used it for xp ? What I said was boot into command prompt and type the above commands. Whats going on is ubuntu has Grub loaded into your Master Boot record, which is different from windows thats why it wont boot. Edit: Google around, you will find lots of ways to fix the boot record issues after ubuntu. hope this helps. http://bobmorris.wordpress.com...   Last edited: 15-Nov-09 12:23 PM

yellow · Nov 15, 2009 12:21 PM

I have no CDs with me at this time. As soon as I reboot,  I get the error message. The only thing I can do is, when I press access IBM, I can go to the bias. That's it..

ram kumari · Nov 15, 2009 12:27 PM

If you have tried everything, You can buy or borrow a xp cd and reformat every thing as last resort. Go to Craigslit.org and your city and check on computer and tech , people may sale  xp for 10 dollars. Which state you are in?

syanjali · Nov 15, 2009 12:38 PM

Ram kumari, you could always create a boot cd if you dont have the OEM disks and then do fixmbr. http://support.microsoft.com/?...

yellow · Nov 15, 2009 3:42 PM

Thanks for your suggestions, Actually, I installed a fresh copy of  xp pro. but some of the drivers are missing. I am buying a driver recovary disk in 19 dollar. Hope that will fix all the problems..   thanks again...

Ram Kumari · Nov 16, 2009 12:02 AM

I would download all the driver (that are uptodate) online and do not waste $19 for recovery disk. Hope this helps.

nikesh282 · Nov 16, 2009 9:09 AM

As Nikesh said, Do not waste money on buying driver cd, You can download free of cost on line, If you can not go on web, do it from other other computer.  Download on removable hard drive specially Ethernet Driver. It will let you go on line and once you are able to go to web, got to IBM tech support and down load site , put your service tag number and start downloading what ever you needed. You can utilize that 19 dollars but do not waste in buying drivers.   Once you able to fix it , I hope you will be knowing something about computer.  Good luck.  I am guessing RamKumari has limited knowledge like me, it sound easy to you folks but will be lost like कुइराको काग Last edited: 16-Nov-09 10:17 AM

syanjali · Nov 16, 2009 9:28 AM

This happened to me a lot. Here are few things what you can do. 1. Find some program on internet that you can edit boot so that you can remove the GRUB(ubuntu) boot and use Windows Boot.. 2. Try re-Install Ubuntu again, but make sure when you install it see Windows Partion. Ubuntu does not take lots of space so you can do with either 3 GB or 4GB.

xcopsgen · Nov 16, 2009 10:08 AM