Automated System Recovery - help

[Dave]

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I have a two HD system.
The original HD was Win98 and it was "C:". no partitions.
I added another HD (160 gb) and made it as the primary boot drive. It has XP
Pro Service pack 2 and was designated as "F:". No partitions.

When ever I booted up, drive "F:" would boot and everything was fine. The
windows directory was F:/Windows as would be expected.
Last month I created a ASR backup with 4 floppies and 12 DVDs.

Last week the drive got corrupted and fails to boot.
I bought a new drive (200gb) and ran the recovery which was originated on
the original installation disks.
It formated 160gb of the 200gb drive and I spent lots of time feeding it the
floppies and dvds.
When all was over I attempted to boot from the drive and it would not boot.

I'd hate to loose all my data.

Any suggestions why this is happening?
Thanks

 

[Guest]

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.perform_maintain (More info?)

If you have Windows NT / 2000 / XP, you can boot from startup floppy disks
or CD-ROM, choose repair option during setup, and run Recovery Console. When
you are logged on, you can run FIXMBR command to fix MBR.

I think this will work

peterk


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"dave" <dave@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:E52537EA-0CE7-4E98-8655-8C46E885DBDD@microsoft.com...
>I have a two HD system.
> The original HD was Win98 and it was "C:". no partitions.
> I added another HD (160 gb) and made it as the primary boot drive. It has
> XP
> Pro Service pack 2 and was designated as "F:". No partitions.
>
> When ever I booted up, drive "F:" would boot and everything was fine. The
> windows directory was F:/Windows as would be expected.
> Last month I created a ASR backup with 4 floppies and 12 DVDs.
>
> Last week the drive got corrupted and fails to boot.
> I bought a new drive (200gb) and ran the recovery which was originated on
> the original installation disks.
> It formated 160gb of the 200gb drive and I spent lots of time feeding it
> the
> floppies and dvds.
> When all was over I attempted to boot from the drive and it would not
> boot.
>
> I'd hate to loose all my data.
>
> Any suggestions why this is happening?
> Thanks