[sllug-members]: OSS tools to fix WinXP partition

[Lars Rasmussen]

David,  you can use dd to copy a working MBR off of another working XP
machine, but I do not suggest it.

Boot to recovery console off of some XP installation CD media and run
FIXBOOT & FIXMBR.

If you need to crack the admin password use this OSS CD:
NT Password Recovery Bootable CD ISO
http://www.dmzs.com/tools/files/password.phtml
http://www.dmzs.com/ftproot/security/password/NTRecovery-DMZS.iso

--
Lars

On 12/29/06, David J Iannucci <fyyht at punchcutter.ml1.net> wrote:
> This weekend I'll be going to try to fix a family member's WinXP
> computer that is refusing to boot.  It looks like the MBR is corrupted
> or something(?) because on boot it says something like "system disk not
> found - insert in A:"
>
> I know about ntfstools, and I'll try to run ntfsfix on it (from
> Knoppix), but I'm not very familiar with what's available on Knoppix
> (or Linux in general) to do this kind of repair.
>
> Does anyone have a suggestion for something I can try?
>
> Thanks and Happy New Year,
> Dave
> ______________________________________________________________________
> See http://www.sllug.org/ for latest SLLUG news, information, links.
> Join SLLUG and other UT LUG members on irc.FreeNode.net channel #Utah
> sllug-members at sllug.org
> http://www.sllug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sllug-members
>