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HP Pavilion a1012x Recovery Problem - Windows XP

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backtolife:
OK, attempting to run fixmbr results in the following warning:

**  CAUTION  **
This computer appears to have a non-standard or invalid master boot record.

FIXMBR may damage your partition tables if you proceed.

This could cause all the partitions on the current hard disk to become inaccessible.

If you hare not having problems accessing your drive do not continue.

Are you sure you want to write a new MBR?

Shane:
Yes. The boot record is corrupt and thats why you see the "Error"

go ahead and have it fix it. This is why we did the clone, just in case we do something that makes things worse lol

Shane

backtolife:
After answering yes, received the message:

The new master boot record has been successfully written.

After reboot, the message at the top left hand side of the screen is:

Invalid partition table

Shane:
OK, looks like they might of had something really different on that system Go back into the recovery console and do these commands next

First make sure C: is the windows drive

so type in

CD C:\

Then when the prompt is at C: do
DIR

it will list the files, see if you see the windows folder and the others that should be there.

If they are then run these

FIXBOOT C:
BOOTCFG /rebuild

Shane

backtolife:
OK.  Running fixboot c: resulted in the message "The new bootsector was successfully written"

Running bootcfg /rebuild resulted in the message:

Error:  Failed to successfully scan disks for Windows installations.  The error may be caused by a corrupt file system, which would prevent Bootdfg from successfully scanning.  Use chkdsk to detect any disk errors.

Note:  This operation must complete successfully in order for the /add or /rebuild commands to be utilized.

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