Isnt there a FIXMBR command on the recovery console?
Re-read my original post
thx anyway
had the same sort of problem once .. everything loaded fine .. then errors ... fitted a new hard drive .. all 100%
Yep already got one on order
ordered it Sunday, just probs aint gonna get it before weekend due to bank holiday
and busy weekend (Trax
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hard disks are that cheap m8 a repair is unviable as when there fooked, they really are fooked. now go and put it in the bin.
That fine but what if u r a tight Cnut like me
lol still after a bit of input on my second question, could i still use it for storage, aint ever had any probs with the drive before so was wondering if I could still use it for storage
, as it seems to be the update that destroyed the mbr not physical fault type thing
get an old win95/98 bootdisk
do run fdisk and remove all partitions
then do fdisk /mbr
then try installing again
if it dont work aftr that, sorry you're fucked
Ye looking that way aint it
will try the old 98 disk as u say as aint tried that yet
Right another question the new drive i ordered is a 200gb sata drive, have read conflicting reports about how to set this up as a boot drive, so expect to run into some probs there as well
point one is some people recon xp (when installing wont be sp1) wont see above 150gb so will have to partition it first do you guys know if this is correct, point b do i have to hit the f6 key on install to install drivers for it as i got a set up disk with my mobo, but that says for sata RAID and i aint setting up raid just one sata disk, point c do i have to set the boot order in bios to scsi (spose will depend on mobo as may have an option to select sata no matter how it runs it, just aint looked yet since ordering new drive
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Mo
aka Steve