{"id":30,"date":"2013-04-29T05:29:55","date_gmt":"2013-04-29T05:29:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rebrik.info\/blog\/?p=30"},"modified":"2013-05-02T01:14:22","modified_gmt":"2013-05-02T05:14:22","slug":"restoring-boot-sector-on-windows-xp-notebook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rebrik.info\/blog\/?p=30","title":{"rendered":"Restoring boot sector on Windows XP notebook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had another disk\/partition adventure recently. My notebook stopped booting after I updated XUbuntu on the second partition of the HD. Apparently the update screwed-up boot sector on Win XP partition (the first one). So I got a USB flash drive with WinXP SP3 setup and booted from it hoping to use Windows recovery tools: <a href=\"http:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/kb\/314058\">fixboot<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/kb\/314058\">fixmbr<\/a>. Unfortunately the recovery was not able to find any Windows installations; in fact it did not see the disk at all. The notebook uses Intel ICH9 controller and its drivers are not available on the setup disk. Apparently I could not use a floppy to add an extra driver in the boot process, so I needed to add these drivers to the installation. There are instructions on how to do this using nLite, but it looked like it can take a long time. And then I realized that I can disable AHCI mode of the SATA controller. One change in the BIOS settings, and the setup disk could find Windows partition and I fixed boot sector using <a href=\"http:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/kb\/314058\">fixboot<\/a>. After fixing the boot sector I changed SATA controller mode back to AHCI and everything worked fine.<\/p>\n<p>On other motherboards\/notebooks these compatibility modes can be called differently (ATA, IDE, something else?), AHCI is sometimes called &#8220;native&#8221; mode.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had another disk\/partition adventure recently. My notebook stopped booting after I updated XUbuntu on the second partition of the HD. Apparently the update screwed-up boot sector on Win XP partition (the first one). So I got a USB flash drive with WinXP SP3 setup and booted from it hoping to use Windows recovery tools: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rebrik.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rebrik.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rebrik.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rebrik.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rebrik.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/rebrik.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32,"href":"https:\/\/rebrik.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions\/32"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rebrik.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rebrik.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rebrik.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}