[dba-Tech] Emergency - winXP problem

er yeah... it was a long day yesterday and I forgot which OS my mate's pc
used, and consqequently didn't bring home the correct cd :-)


Jon

-----Original Message-----
From: Haslett, Andrew [mailto:andrew.haslett at ilc.gov.au]
Sent: 22 July 2004 02:08
To: 'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues'
Subject: RE: [dba-Tech] Emergency - winXP problem


The operating systems tracks and configures itself depending on the hardware
it uses.

I'd be worried if you *didn't* have any problems replacing your hardware!

And yeah - you should be generally be using the same OS disk to repair
from..

A

-----Original Message-----
From: Jon Tydda [mailto:jon at tydda.plus.com] 
Sent: Thursday, 22 July 2004 6:58 AM
To: dba-tech
Subject: [dba-Tech] Emergency - winXP problem

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 and
won't boot.

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...


Jon

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