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How to fix boot record. Boot Part'n is NTFS, but is shown as FAT32 in Boot Record



 
 
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Old May 31st 06, 02:16 AM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
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Default How to fix boot record. Boot Part'n is NTFS, but is shown as FAT32 in Boot Record

I currently have a situation with my hard drive on my othee pc. The
Boot Record show the boot partition as FAT32, but the Partition Record
shows it as NTFS. It is actually NTFS.

How do I fix it. Fdisk /MBR doesn't fix it. Been there, done that.
Also, Partition Magic doesn't seem to think there is a problem. Active
Partition Recovery v2.1.1 warns me about the problem, but for some
inexplicable reason doesn't fix it???

Anyone got any idea?

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Old May 31st 06, 11:54 AM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
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Default How to fix boot record. Boot Part'n is NTFS, but is shown as FAT32 in Boot Record


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I currently have a situation with my hard drive on my othee pc. The
Boot Record show the boot partition as FAT32, but the Partition Record
shows it as NTFS. It is actually NTFS.

How do I fix it. Fdisk /MBR doesn't fix it. Been there, done that.
Also, Partition Magic doesn't seem to think there is a problem. Active
Partition Recovery v2.1.1 warns me about the problem, but for some
inexplicable reason doesn't fix it???

Anyone got any idea?


The solution depends on you temperament:
- If you are willing to gamble then you can boot the machine
with a Win98 boot disk (www.bootdisk.com), then run
ptedit.exe
(ftp://ftp.symantec.com/public/englis.../pq/utilities/)
to modify the attribute in the partition table that wrongly says
it's a FAT32 partition. You would have to find out by trial
and error how to do this, or by comparison with other
partition tables. This is nice and simple but you might lose
the whole disk.
- If you want to play it safe then you must copy the whole
installation to a spare disk, repartition and reformat the
problem disk, then copy things back again.


 




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