Rachel's Blog » Windows http://www.willmer.com/kb Wed, 01 Feb 2012 14:27:33 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 Fdisk /MBR in Windows XP http://www.willmer.com/kb/2007/06/fdisk-mbr-in-windows-xp/ http://www.willmer.com/kb/2007/06/fdisk-mbr-in-windows-xp/#comments Sun, 17 Jun 2007 17:27:49 +0000 Rachel http://www.willmer.com/kb/2007/06/fdisk-mbr-in-windows-xp/ Windows XP doesn’t provide Fdisk, but I’ve done an equivalent operation to FDISK /MBR like this:

Configured the Recovery console for automatic administrator login – this was important because there seems to be a bug which requires an admin password to be entered, even when the system doesn’t have one.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/312149/Then boot up from the Windows XP setup CD, and I chose the ‘R’ Recovery option.

Once in, I ran FIXMBR.

And the PC boots again…

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