AAACK! what happened to my XP?

[Fizz]

ok, here is the problem, I had XP installed on my E:/ drive and everything was fine till I added a new hard drive, this hard drive forced itself into being the D:/ drive which then pushed everything back making my XP install on my F:/ drive. (before I go on you might need to know that C:/, D:/, and E:/ where all just partitions on my my main HD, so know the new HD forced it's way into the middle of them) any way, I know you can change Drive letters in win2k, and probably in XP, but I can't get into my XP because when I try I get a message that says something like "Isass.exe ERROR, incorrect termination point" any ideas what could be wrong, I can't change drive letters in my win98 boot (and don't know if that would help), I ran a search for isass.exe on my system and can't find it and I tried changein the number of the drive in my boot.ini file and that didn't help


any ideas would be helpfull please

THANX

 

[ineedsleep]

When you said...


<< tried changein the number of the drive in my boot.ini file and that didn't help >>


... did you mean the disk or the partition?

[boot]
timeout=30
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(X)\Windows="MS XP"

By changing the partition(X) to partition(X + 1), it should work - where x is what was originally there.

If you already tried that, maybe you can reformat the MBR, and then use fixboot. You can access both of these tools in xp repair console.... or format the mbr using fdisk.

ANother thing to try - do a search on MS site and type in the string "change boot drive letter" - you should find a kb article describing the changes needed in your registry. Then you'll need to edit the registry... don't ask me how... just ideas...

Hope this helps....

 

[Fizz]

<< When you said...

<< tried changein the number of the drive in my boot.ini file and that didn't help >>

... did you mean the disk or the partition?[boot]timeout=30[operating systems]multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(X)\Windows="MS XP"By changing the partition(X) to partition(X + 1), it should work - where x is what was originally there. >>




yup, that is what I tried, and it no worky, also I tried the repare feature and it just acted wierd it said said which do you want to fix?

F:/...

was my only choice, and where XP is installed, so I chose it, it then rebooted and went to the page for choosing between windows and winXP..... I saw no repair thing happen..... GRRRRR I guess it time to reformat


Thanx

 

[toant103]

go to dos and type fdisk to view the partition and boot sector. just look for the info in there. then edit your boot ini files. keep on trying. you might want to do this is dos. and make sure that the boot.ini is not read only.

 

[nippyjun]

Is the new hard drive on the same IDE channel as the old one. If it is, then you could try to put it on it's own channel and see if that changes the drive letter assignment. Or if it is on a different channel then put it on the same channel and see what happens.