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Almost to the Point of pulling my hair out

nboy22

nboy22

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I've been trying to figure out how I can view and fix my Master Boot Record on this computer at my workplace for more than 3 1/2 hours! 🙁 Can anyone suggest a Bootable Boot manager to me?! I know this isn't the right place for it but people are here the most and I'm more likely to get the fast reply I need here more than any other section! Thanks!
 
Originally posted by: Krazy4Real
you can repair the MBR using a bootable windows cd and entering the recovery console.
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I've tried this, and I'm still getting "operating system not found" error, i really need to fix this computer! and quickly!
 
Originally posted by: Krazy4Real
What OS and what file system?
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NTFS, One partition, Windows 2000, the windows 2000 CD recovery console does not help, neither do the "repair" installations, I've tried everything on there I'm sure, and I cannot even access windows to enable the SET syntax, it blows!
 
Ok, by now I've tried just about I think everything, tried a startup disk, tried recovery console, tried ghost (just restarts the computer after loading), tried actually REPAIR installing windows 2000, all it does it get to an error that it can't copy some of the files. I've tried my own Pirate copy of windows 2000 (have it strictly for just getting past the administrator password on xp machines when people forget their admin passwords) and I get an NTLDR is missing error right now... I seriously can't think of much more to try but just copy the whole drive over to a USB drive and then reformatting and starting clean. There's like NO way to access the MBR at all, it's really frustrating and ridiculous.
 
Originally posted by: nboy22
Ok, by now I've tried just about I think everything, tried a startup disk, tried recovery console, tried ghost (just restarts the computer after loading), tried actually REPAIR installing windows 2000, all it does it get to an error that it can't copy some of the files. I've tried my own Pirate copy of windows 2000 (have it strictly for just getting past the administrator password on xp machines when people forget their admin passwords) and I get an NTLDR is missing error right now... I seriously can't think of much more to try but just copy the whole drive over to a USB drive and then reformatting and starting clean. There's like NO way to access the MBR at all, it's really frustrating and ridiculous.
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drive sounds toasted. Might have to reformat.
 
Originally posted by: Leper Messiah
Originally posted by: nboy22
Ok, by now I've tried just about I think everything, tried a startup disk, tried recovery console, tried ghost (just restarts the computer after loading), tried actually REPAIR installing windows 2000, all it does it get to an error that it can't copy some of the files. I've tried my own Pirate copy of windows 2000 (have it strictly for just getting past the administrator password on xp machines when people forget their admin passwords) and I get an NTLDR is missing error right now... I seriously can't think of much more to try but just copy the whole drive over to a USB drive and then reformatting and starting clean. There's like NO way to access the MBR at all, it's really frustrating and ridiculous.
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drive sounds toasted. Might have to reformat.
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This all started by some guy deleting the partition which had the "System Commander" Program on it. and then I went in and did a fixmbr in recovery console to clear out the system commander stuff cause I thought that might be where it was set to boot to system commander. Then I got the "Operating system not found" error, and now after trying to a repair install on drive D: which is a blank NTFS I've got "ntldr missing". This is so fun! 🙁
 
Originally posted by: nboy22
Originally posted by: everman
Have you tried GRUB?
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I took a look at it but all it looks like is Linux-like files.... how are you even supposed to set that up to boot at all? Thanks.
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You can use it to boot just about any OS. Much better than the windows boot loader that's for sure. I thought it might be able to see your partitions, possibly. You could also try a live linux cd like knoppix or others with utilities that might see it.
 
I now need a bootable-drive copying utility, preferably one that could even read USB external drives and back up to them, I'm so stuck, this problem absolutely sucks! 🙁
 
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