How do I fix a boot sector on the HD? [boot sector] [bullshit]
Q: Long story short, my computer is a real bitch lately has been, and in the processes of ghostin the image back to the HD crashed and my Ghost boot sector is now fvcked. How can I fix it so that I can boot? I keep a nonsense message that NTLDR is missing .
any ideas?
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Best Answer: Open the Control panel, click 'administrative tools'. When that opens, choose 'computer management'. from that, find and click 'disk management'. Your second drive will be showing, delete all of it's partitions and create a new one. That should get rid of it. Make sure that you do this to the correct drive of course!
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Re:Well XP is now happily installing and it booted off the HD to finish the installation, so it looks like I might escape!
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Re:i got back into the recovery console, but the bootfix wont work… still the same error… I am tryin to reinstall XP and then I will reghost over the top if I get it to work….
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Re:Originally posted by: guy
Man are you screwed.
Thanks 
I am recloning the machine and then ill rerun the console….. well see what happens….
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Re:I cant even run the recovery console… it always reboots my machine….. now what?
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Re:It doesn't affect the partition table, it just rebuilds the master boot record so that Windows partitions become bootable again. You did set the partition Active when you copied it over, right?
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Re:If I run fixboot or fixmbr will my other partitions on my 80GB hard drive get wiped out?
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Re:Its with Win XP. I was able to restart the ghost and get an image ghosted back to the HD, but I get those same damn errors. I have an 80 GB hard drive that has 5 partitions. I dont want to wipe the entire drive as I have a lot of important data on the other partitions.
How can I go about fixing the problem without ruining the other partitions?
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Re:Boot off of a Windows 98 disk and type fdisk /mbr
That will give you a Windows 98 boot record.
Then go from there.
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Re:Well uhm…if Ghost crashed…how'd the image get finished so that you can boot at all? The boot sector isn't damaged, the partition is either not there, or some of the files are corrupted.
Wipe the hard drive and start over.
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Re:telling us which OS would help a bit! anyway…
boot from the CD and go to repair console
FIXBOOT
FIXMBR
that should take care of it
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