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Drive with MBR died. How to restore XP on other drive?

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mm2587

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So for whatever silly reason (I'm sure I had a good one at the time) The drive I had installed XP to was not the same drive that had the boot record. Well the drive with the boot record bit the dust sometime last night. Really not a big deal because there wasn't anything important on it.

My question is can I recover my xp install now or am I going to have to reinstall it? It seems like there should be a way to create a new boot record on the drive that has windows installed.

I tried using the fixboot and fixmbr commands in the windows recovery console to no avail.
 
Tired that and couldn't seem to get the windows disc to create a new boot loader. (was trying the bootcfg \rebuild command) Ended up downloading some third party fix that contained a copy of the windows ntloader and a boot config file and was up and running in a few minutes. Just don't understand why the recovery console is so worthless.
 
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