Robert Moskowitz wrote: > Kai Schaetzl wrote: >> Robert Moskowitz wrote on Wed, 30 Jul 2008 08:29:01 +0100: >> >>> I am still dead on my corporate system, and the XP boot CD I brought >>> won't boot. And so far I have not found anyone here at the IETF >>> meeting that happens to have one in their bag of tricks... >>> >> >> If this is an XP system and the MBR set by XP, then you can boot with >> the (any!) XP CD/DVD into the rescue console and use fixmbr command. > I know that, but so far I have not found anyone here at the IETF meeting > that has one. I mean, who carries such a CD with them to a week-long > meeting? I have a couple of options to pursue still. LIke the network > helpdesk vendor who is local... > >> However, you indicated earlier there is some encryption in place, I >> don't know if that is already in effect at MBR level. If it is, this >> method or the one mentioned in the article won't help. >> > My corporate tech guy told me the first step is to get a standard XP mbr > back on the system, and then he believes he can talk me through getting > the encryption working again. >> Kai >> >> Freedos with command "fdisk /mbr" ? There are a couple of hurdles with this, mainly: 1) If you have SATA drive (or SCSI or...), freedos may not be able to see the drive 2) I don't know if freedos has an updated version of fdisk that has no addressing limitation (main not be a showstopper anyway) Anyway, just a quick tought. Guy Boisvert, ing. IngTegration inc.