- #Windows xp boot disk missing mbr install
- #Windows xp boot disk missing mbr full
- #Windows xp boot disk missing mbr pro
- #Windows xp boot disk missing mbr Pc
This will restore your windows boot loader to the drive. You will get warnings about the mbr being non-standard, etc., but just reply yes. This will fix the mbr of the disk that holds the Windows system you chose to log into earlier. I’m going to assume the boot sector is present and technically ok. It should also be possibly to copy data to a safe place if required but I’m not covering that here. You can run ‘ chkdsk‘, etc if you want just to make sure they are ok. Using ‘ map arc‘ will give you the same information in a slightly different format. This will list your drives and you can use this to check that they are all present. Choose the system that is on the primary boot drive (option 1 in my case, the c: drive) – you’ll need to know the administrator password. A search will be performed and you will be asked to log in to one of the installed windows systems – I have two in my case. Once windows has booted up you’ll be presented with an options screen. You should also know which of your disks is the primary boot disk – that’s the first disk listed in your bios boot order.įirst boot your machine from the Windows XP installation cd – you may need to change a bios setting to boot from cd/dvd – remembering to press a key when the message appears on the screen to confirm boot from cd.
#Windows xp boot disk missing mbr full
You’ll need a windows XP installation cd/dvd, an Ubuntu live (or full install) cd/dvd and the administrator password for the appropriate Windows installation. Firstly, I’m assuming you simply can’t boot anything or perhaps not one of your OSes.
#Windows xp boot disk missing mbr pro
The whole system was set up originally by installing XP Home first, then XP Pro later and finally Ubuntu with the ‘write Grub to mbr’ option chosen.Īll I’m going to do to recover the system is to use existing tools. The linux bootloader, Grub2, was installed in the Drive 1 mbr and its menu contains the usual collection of Linux options followed by the Windows boot loader which then goes on to provide a choice of the two windows operating systems. Linux was installed using the recommended approach for beginners so it is all in one partition which is Ext3 format in my case. The bios boot order is Drive 1, Drive 2, Drive 3. Partition 1 (NTFS): u: containing only data. Partition 2: Linux Ext3 containing Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat Partition 6 (NTFS): f: containing only data Partition 5 (NTFS): e: containing Windows XP Pro Partition 1 (w’95 Ext LBA): An extended partition containing two other partitions – p5 and p6. Partition 2 (NTFS): k: containing only data. Partition 1 (NTFS): c: containing Windows XP Home
#Windows xp boot disk missing mbr Pc
I have an Intel-based pentium 4 pc with 3 hard disk drives. Incidentally, there is a disk utility in Ubuntu under System->Administration that will give you a good view of your disk structure but unfortunately will not re-write an mbr without completely reformatting the disk.įirstly let me describe my PC setup because I can’t tell you if it works for anything else.
#Windows xp boot disk missing mbr install
Also, you might want to try just the Grub2 recovery first to see if that fixes your problem – especially if you don’t have a Windows install disk. Note that the second part of the instructions can be used at any time to restore the Grub2 boot loader if it is ‘accidentally’ removed by any Windows maintenance. It works for me – recovery time less than 10 minutes after a bit of practice. This is my distillation of the numerous helpful, unhelpful and down-right confusing items I came across. Fortunately I was able to use my laptop to get onto the internet and start looking for help but it was not quite as easy as you would think As it happens, several instructions I came across caused even more damage. I was convinced this was just a Master Boot Record (mbr) issue and I wanted to avoid reformatting any disks to recover it. Lately, due to my own stupidity, I managed to mess it up to the point where it just wouldn’t boot up. I have a desktop pc with Ubuntu 10.10 (Maverick Meerkat), Windows XP Home and Windows XP Pro installed in a multi-boot arrangement.
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