Make Disk Bootable after Recovery of Partition
Hi there,
I have some trouble, to get a disc bootable again, after recovering the partition.
Friend of mine, did backups of his old PC (still one XP, without Internet Access - has some pretty olf software), but instead of backup the whole disk, he only choose the C: Partition - at least I guess it happened like that.
The problem is, if i want to do a recovery of the whole disc and I choose this backup, it always says this file is not usable for that (only have the german version sorry) - I can only use the recovery option for files and folders.
So I did this - and of course the disc wasn't bootable after the recovery.
I did try boot from Windows XP CD - into the Recovery Console and tried Fixboot and Fixmbr - Fixboot did not work. So the Drive still wasn't bootable.
Next step I wanted to try was one XP Repair Installation, but the "Installation" wasn't recognized.
So I did a fresh install of XP - tried to recover the backupfiles, with override Option enabled - XP was bootable, but still not all Software and Drivers and Settings were correctly recovered.
Now, does anyone have some ideas what else to do (besides of upgrading)?
Any Ideas appreciated.
regards
Enrico


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Thanks for the answer,
too bad thats the only solution.
best regards
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