Corrosion. Posted March 29, 2008 Share Posted March 29, 2008 My uncles computer was bosd-ing on boot saying the the boot secotor was unbootable. So I used the recovery console in the windows installation cd and the fixboot and fixmbr commands and that did the trick. But.... Is there a way to get a cd that contains only the recovery console for windows xp? EDIT btw, what would have caused the problem in the first place? He said it was a new installation and the last thing he did was install a sound card driver for the mother board. And the computer restarted fine, but when he shutdown and then turned on his computer is when the problem occured. No access to any safe mode options either. EDIT ok anytime the computer is shutdown this must be re-done any fix? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
digip Posted March 29, 2008 Share Posted March 29, 2008 Sounds like a boot virus. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparda Posted March 29, 2008 Share Posted March 29, 2008 Sounds like a boot virus. or an Adobe product ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corrosion. Posted March 29, 2008 Author Share Posted March 29, 2008 I just did a fresh install Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iain Posted March 29, 2008 Share Posted March 29, 2008 Is there a way to get a cd that contains only the recovery console for windows xp? I don't think it's possible to get ONLY Recovery Console. Have a look here (almost at the bottom) and here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SomeoneE1se Posted March 29, 2008 Share Posted March 29, 2008 I haven't seen a CD with just the recovery console but there are lots of boot disks that can do what the recovery console does and more. I think the idea of having it on the same disk is that if the recovery fails you'll need to reinstall anyways why not save the user having to replace the disk. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corrosion. Posted March 30, 2008 Author Share Posted March 30, 2008 I have ERD Commander now, it's nice Thanks for the help guys Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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