[dba-Tech] Emergency - winXP problem

Knoppix is a Live Linux CD,  It is capable of reading NTFS partitions, 
it doesn't however write to NTFS (AFAIK).  this should enable you to go 
back and try a re-install to another directory of XP allowing you to 
copy over the required information , or if you have a 2nd hdd, install 
xp to that, and then make any necessary adjustments to the OS drive.


Jon Tydda wrote On 7/21/2004 3:25 PM:

>knoppix? I'll look it up...
>
>I don't know, I've never used xp before... not been a problem with 2k. I
>might get him to use a proper OS ;-)
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>
>Jon
>----- Original Message ----- 
>From: "Francisco H Tapia" <my.lists at verizon.net>
>To: "Discussion of Hardware and Software issues"
><dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com>
>Sent: Wednesday, July 21, 2004 10:36 PM
>Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Emergency - winXP problem
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>
>you transplanted a mobo on a pc running XP and expected it not to have a
>problem? :D,  Each device generates guids, generally a sysprep before
>you start ripping out hardware is the fix...
>
>if you boot w/ Knoppix can you see data on the drives?
>
>
>Jon Tydda wrote On 7/21/2004 2:27 PM:
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>>I've just transplanted a new motherboard, processor and RAM into a friends
>>pc... I've turned it on, and now the pc can't or won't see the C:\ drive
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>and
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>>won't boot.
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>>I've run fixmbr to fix the master boot record, and fixboot, to fix the boot
>>partition... but it insists that there is an error loading the operating
>>system, and it says that there is nothing installed on the drive. I know
>>this to be untrue, as I have been administering this pc for about 6
>>months... I've tried a recovery console repair, but it can't find anything
>>to repair, the same with a repair install...
>>
>>actually, thinking about it, would the fact that I'm using a win2k cd to
>>repair an xp install be a problem??? hmm... I really need a holiday...
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>>Jon
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-Francisco