The_Unbeliever
Honorary Master
Why are these files still present in WindowsXP?
One would thought that M$ killed off DOS long ago...
One would thought that M$ killed off DOS long ago...
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AK65
Well-Known Member
(I think) so that you can boot up in a DOS only environment?
At least MSDOS.SYS and IO.SYS worked.....
My fancy pantsy Windows XP SATA drive won't boot anymore - no matter what I do..........
At least MSDOS.SYS and IO.SYS worked.....
My fancy pantsy Windows XP SATA drive won't boot anymore - no matter what I do..........
The_Techie
Resident Techie
(I think) so that you can boot up in a DOS only environment?
At least MSDOS.SYS and IO.SYS worked.....
My fancy pantsy Windows XP SATA drive won't boot anymore - no matter what I do..........
What you do is, you take a large mallet...
LandyMan
Honorary Master
What you do is, you take a large mallet...
He said mallet, not mullet, so please don't go shaving your buddy's head
The_Techie
Resident Techie
He said mallet, not mullet, so please don't go shaving your buddy's head
/me hides the hair trimmers behind his back.
Right, so where was I?
AK65
Well-Known Member
Mullets need shaving.....for the sake of good taste......
Seriously, I would really know how to resurrect my XP boot disk, since I have an application and hardware that will only run on Windoze.....ProTools to be precise...and I am researching OSS alternatives btw.
Short of repartitioning, reformatting and reinstalling windows, what else can I do?
I have tried:
restoring boot sector with bootfix - did not fix problem
restoring MBR with mbrfix - ditto
restoring NTLDR from install CD - ditto
restoring ntdetect.com from install CD - ditto
restoring ntoskrnl.exe from install CD - ditto
restoring ntdll.dll from install CD - ditto
Disk is readable from another XP system.
The hard disk has no boot problems, since GRUB boots a menu fine and a Linux OS boots no problem.
I am beginning to really hate WindowsXP and NTFS particularly, because one minute it's there and the next, Poof!! Your data does the vanishing act. I have not had this kind of problem with FAT32....
Seriously, I would really know how to resurrect my XP boot disk, since I have an application and hardware that will only run on Windoze.....ProTools to be precise...and I am researching OSS alternatives btw.
Short of repartitioning, reformatting and reinstalling windows, what else can I do?
I have tried:
restoring boot sector with bootfix - did not fix problem
restoring MBR with mbrfix - ditto
restoring NTLDR from install CD - ditto
restoring ntdetect.com from install CD - ditto
restoring ntoskrnl.exe from install CD - ditto
restoring ntdll.dll from install CD - ditto
Disk is readable from another XP system.
The hard disk has no boot problems, since GRUB boots a menu fine and a Linux OS boots no problem.
I am beginning to really hate WindowsXP and NTFS particularly, because one minute it's there and the next, Poof!! Your data does the vanishing act. I have not had this kind of problem with FAT32....
AK65
Well-Known Member
Just a little report back:
I fixed my broken Windows system
Using a Linux live CD, I used dd to make a binary copy of the NTFS partition.
I then reformatted the NTFS partition from a working Windows system.
I then copied the binary copy back onto the reformatted NTFS partition, again using a live Linux CD.
As if by magic, Windows is now fixed. Exactly how this happened, I have no idea. But it was a pain having to boot a hard drive with a floppy disk........
I fixed my broken Windows system
Using a Linux live CD, I used dd to make a binary copy of the NTFS partition.
I then reformatted the NTFS partition from a working Windows system.
I then copied the binary copy back onto the reformatted NTFS partition, again using a live Linux CD.
As if by magic, Windows is now fixed. Exactly how this happened, I have no idea. But it was a pain having to boot a hard drive with a floppy disk........