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How to clone Windows XP back to your HD?
On Apr 20, 3:59*pm, "Tim Meddick" wrote:
I did say in my initial reply - the Admin password is *usually* NOT set to anything - therefo just press [ENTER] when asked for the Administrator password - instead of trying to enter one. You are nearly there! == Cheers, * *Tim Meddick, * *Peckham, London. * *:-) * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * --------system32 Thank you once again, Tim. I booted again, and at the press ENTER? prompt, I entered 1, and at the request for an Administrator password, I hit Enter. I am now looking at the C:\WIDOWS prompt. I should have mentioned somewhere in this thread, that my computer experience has been, until last year when my wife gave me the Netook, entirely with Macintosh. I am retired, now working as an independent contractor, and my colleagues, all seniors, look to me for computer help at work, a Windows environment. This led to my wife's getting me the Netbook and my setting out to learning Widows. This is my first shot at serious troubleshooting in Windows. So, I read all your instructions again then entered FIXMBR. It produced dire warnings, "If you are not having problems accessing your drive, do not continue." I continued, got "The new master boot record has been successfully written. Shut down, rebooted, and once again got: GRUB loading. error: no such partition grub rescue Followed these instructions from you: If there is still a problem, repeat the above procedure to start Recovery Console again, then type in the command : FIXBOOT C: then press [ENTER] then again type EXIT then [ENTER] to reboot. If the XP partition is still intact, then usually just following the first part of this procedure should recover the MBR so that XP can be booted to again. Received this: The file system on the startup partition is NTFS FIXBOOT IS writing a new boot sector New boot sector was successfully written Exited & restarted holding down the f2 key to return the boot order to IDE HDD : Samsung at the top. And found myself once again back at: GRUB loading. error: no such partition grub rescue Is there anything else that can be attempted in an effort to resolve this problem??? |
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