azinkin Posted August 4, 2006 Report Share Posted August 4, 2006 I have Win XP installed on partition C. And another Win XP installed on partition D. I want to format partition C, but the boot files are on that partition. Is there a way to get through these? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jason.b.c Posted August 4, 2006 Report Share Posted August 4, 2006 I have Win XP installed on partition C. And another Win XP installed on partition D. I want to format partition C, but the boot files are on that partition. Is there a way to get through these?Be very careful and pay close attention to what your doing..!!Now with that said , Just format that partition on the hard drive like you want it and for the system you want to keep you need your XP install disk ( hope you've got one ) .., Then you would need to boot-up from that and choose ( i think ) the "R" option , From there you should be able to get a command promt with a blinking cursor , Type: FIXMBR and press enter... That should do it...If not , you could always download and install the Grub Boot Loader and use that...It would work just as well...Or you could make a Grub Boot Floppy. ...GRUB for DOS description DownloadGRUB for DOS is a rebuild of the GNU GRUB boot manager for DOS, and can be run under real mode DOS. It also has many new features.For example, it can be booted through BOOT.INI of Windows (grldr) and kexec of Linux (grub4lin).The disk emulation feature is another enhancement over GNU GRUB, and can be used to run legacy DOS/Windows9x systems with floppy or hard disk images.Here are some key features of "GRUB for DOS":· Can be launched by NTLDR· Can be launched from linux with kexec· Can create ramdisks· Can use file as well as partition as the source of the ramdisk· Can be used as a no-emulation-mode bootable CD-ROM boot image· Has a "Chinese" special build that can display chinese help message at the console· Add device (md) that can map a specified range of memory as a ramdisk· Add device (rd) that reflect the memdisk loaded by inited· Can chainload KERNEL.SYS from FreeDOS· Can chainload NTLDR from Windows NT/2K/XP· Can chainload IO.SYS from MSDOS, Windows 95/98/MEMore Info.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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