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In Reply to: RE: MBR corrupted? posted by theob on January 31, 2012 at 07:18:19
according to specs Snapshot can restore MBR, so you could try this before doing a new install.
http://www.drivesnapshot.de/en/restdos.htm
MBR is the first physical sector of a harddisk, which functions as a content-table of the harddisk. It contents all info about the partitions on the disk(partition names, where they start end end, etc), and points to the first sector of each partition, so your computer knows where to go for startup instructions (boot.ini). So when it cant find this, due to corrupted MBR or corrupted first partition-sector, it won't boot. XP then reports very confusingly that hall.dll is missing.
Reloding an OS image would not reload the MBR, as this is not in the physical partition. You'll have to do this separately.
hope this helps, good luck!
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Very helpful I believe this may be the answer. One more question is there another way to reconstruct the MBR on my ssd? I can certainly access it via a docking station on my desktop pc.
I re-read the Snapshot website on restoring an image and apparantly you can re build an MBR or whole sector by a simple right click in the restore process. I did this for the MBR and the whole sector separately and after both attempts I still got the Hal error during boot. I will try the n-lite version but am skeptical now.
it should be possible. I assume the dock is SATA.
But i think, if you have a small XP iso, it is faster and easier to do a fresh install & reload your own image.
I looked at snapshot: difficult dos commands and all. True Image it's just ticking a box. Easy.
I looked at snapshot: difficult dos commands and all.Not so. Snapshot has a perfectly good GUI. I've no idea whether it's still a better program than TrueImage but it certainly was when I first bought it some years ago. (We won't even talk about Norton's "Ghost" which, dammit, I paid good money for.)
True, I have in the past configured Snapshot to perform an automatic restore using a bootable floppy and a batch file but that was a facility for the non-technical, not a limitation of the program. That was way back in the days of the floppy disk and is no longer necessary as the program can now restore a boot partition.
More recently, I've seen me dozens of times get locked out of a cMP^2 machine and be back up and running in two or three minutes, ne'er a DOS command in sight.
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Edits: 02/01/12 02/01/12
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