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October 11th, 2004 17:00
Using Windows Boot Diskette to edit a file on my SATA HD
I cannot boot into windows because my bootcfg file is messed up. And whenever I try to boot with diskette to go into dos and edit the boot.ini file, it doesn't show my SATA drive letter C:, it only shows the two IDE partitions that I use for storage and the operating system is on the SATA drive.
Does the WinXP boot diskettes support SATA or is there a way to load SATA drivers prior to starting a boot diskette (for example Win98 SE's boot disk)? If so what drivers on my Resource Disk should I choose? My system is a Dimension 4600 with a 160GB Seagate SATA HD.
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Denny Denham
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October 11th, 2004 21:00
I suspect your operating system is on an NTFS partition, which DOS cannot see. You can try repairing the problem by booting to the Recovery Console (see this) and entering fixmbr. If this does not correct the problem, do a repair reinstallation of XP (see this). After a repair reinstall you will need to install all critical updates that you had previously installed.
JRosenfeld
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October 12th, 2004 00:00
For future reference: Creating a boot disk for an NTFS or FAT partition:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;311073