Fixed. Thanks mates

[Chunkee]

Downloaded 7.10, put in an XP Pro box to take a look and run as a live disk from CDROM. Now for some reason, the box will not boot into XP without the XP disk being in there?

Anyone else seen this? What is the fix? What did it change? The MBR?

I have tried FixMBR...etc. still wont boot properly unless disk is in there.

Much appreciate the help as I an not real versed at it.

JCoria

 

[Nothinman]

What does it do when you boot without the disc in there?

 

[Rhonda the Sly]

More curiously, what does it do with the disc in the tray? Does it boot straight into windows? Do you have to reinstall? Missing files? Can you still boot into Ubuntu? And have you tried a repair installation? Did you remember to take the LiveCD out of the tray before trying to boot XP?

FixMBR not working is entirely expected. LiveCDs are made to be able to run exclusively on your memory and the disc itself, you can even boot into one with no hard drive installed in your system. If there is a hard disc in the box at the time you tested Ubuntu, it shouldn't have tried to access it unless you did, which should still be fine regardless. Your boot record should have been left alone, it's good to see it was. You didn't install anything, did you?

Another thing to look at is a coincidental hardware failure but their is no point in taking anything apart if you simply left the disc in the tray.

Edit:
Found these:
Link One
Link Two

Kind of related, though they don't bring up anything particularly helpful aside from maybe resetting BIOS. Guess they should have called 7.10 Deadly Darren. :evil:

 

[Chunkee]

Disk is out. XP will boot with XP disk in it. Weird. Do not think it is the hardware, it just happened right after the live disk as well it will still boot when the XP disk is in...

 

[jhu]

you're welcome

 

[rasczak]

i had the same issue and it eventually corrupted my bootsector to the point of not being able to boot windows at all. i tried everything, bios options (setting hdd as first boot device), ran hdd diagnostics (everything was fine), editing boot.ini to point to correct hdd (edited via ubuntu 7.10 live cd of all things lol) recovery console ( fixmbr and fixboot did nothing) eventually i just scrapped the whoe drive and zeroed it out. i am currently reinstalling and wll dual boot with 7.10 again then make an image of the entire drive as well as clone it to another drive (at least in theory)