Hey Chuck. The boot.ini file was unchanged, it was the same as it always was, and the same as the one on my PC. I also tried fixboot and that didn't help.
I finally got it fixed. Out of desperation before a reformat, I booted from the Ghost *10* CD. (I didn't install it because I'm unfamiliar with it, heard bad things about it, and I never had a single issue with Ghost 2003 before). I got to a nice GUI interface with a host of tools. I tried them all, so I don't know which one worked. All I remember is "Fix MBR", something about making a partition active, and maybe 4 or 5 other areas I tried. One of them worked. Through all these areas, these checks and info, it never once said anything was wrong with the drive! -Clint Merry Christmas to all & God Bless Clint Hamilton, Owner http://www.OrpheusComputing.com/computers/specials.html http://www.ComputersCustomBuilt.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chuck Harris" Hi Clint and all, Long time no post. Perhaps choosing the fixboot command in the Repair Console after booting from the XP CD would help. Possibly editing the boot.ini file manually would help. HTH, Chuck Original Message: I'm hoping someone is familiar with this program, or knows how to restore the MBR. I don't understand this. I've d'loaded MbrFix.exe and no where do they state, what to do next! http://www.sysint.no/nedlasting/mbrfix.htm . I put it on a floppy and it's not bootable! I put in on a BOOTABLE floppy and tried to run it, and it actually says "This program cannot be run in DOS"!!!! It can't be run in Windows either! So, how the heck do you run it? Murmur chants?? I made the fatal mistake of putting that POS Ghost (2003) on a customer's PC and now the HD is toast. I tried to create a backup with an external HD in a USB enclosure (something I always do with NO PROBLEM), and it kept hanging and crashing/freezing up while in that Ghost PC-DOS area. I tried several times, same thing. Then, when I tried to get back into XP, the damn thing wouldn't boot!! I would choose the option to cancel then boot back into XP and it just sat there and did nothing. If I'd get to a screen where it says Ghost failed, and it "would return to XP in X seconds", it never did!! This is BS, doesn't work. http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT/ghost.nsf/docid/2002110115000025?Ope n&src=bar_sch_nam&docid=2002092510522725&nsf=ghost.nsf&view=8f7dc13883056 3c888256c2200662ecd&dtype=&prod=&ver=&osv=&osv_lvl= Ghreboot and Gdisk was a total waste of time. I tried ptedit.exe http://www.goodells.net/multiboot/ptedit.htm recommend here: http://archive.midrange.com/pctech/200507/msg00018.html and did what that dude said that FIXED his EXACT problem as mine, but it didn't do JACK other than make things worse! I tried booting off the XP CD and doing a "repair" and "fixmbr" and it said it FIXED IT, DONE, yet when I try and boot it says "DISK BOOT FAILURE". I even tried hooking up the HD to my PC, going into the Admin tools area and Computer Management, then deleting that "spawned from hell" Ghost 8mb partition, and that didn't even work!! **ALL** of the files are STILL THERE on the HD; Windows, Program Files, even all the boot.ini, autoexec.bat, ntldr, etc., files! So POH-LEEZE can someone tell me how to make this #%$&! drive so it can boot back into XP?? Thank you, -Clint ============= PCWorks Mailing List ================= Don't see your post? Check our posting guidelines & make sure you've followed proper posting procedures, http://pcworkers.com/rules.htm Contact list owner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unsubscribing and other changes: http://pcworkers.com =====================================================
