mikesw Posted November 7, 2007 Posted November 7, 2007 I have a disk whereby MSDOS v6.22 was installed on the first partition and is marked boot and active.This was installed first.I then installed Win 2K Pro sp4 on second partition.I then installed the Win 2k Pro Recovery Console which installs /cmdcons subdir on the first (MSDOS) partition.I can bootup and select MSDOS which boots MSDOS without problem.I can bootup and select Win 2k which boots without problem.However, if I select "Recovery Console", the screen shows Recover Console running with thedots being displayed followed by BSOD of stop code 0x7B saying no boot device.I'm not sure if fixing the MBR using the MSDOS command on the MSDOS disk followed byusing the Win 2K fix mbr command on both the MSDOS and Win2K filesystems will correct my problem sinceI'm not sure if using the fix mbr supplied by Win 2K will affect the MSDOS MBR. Moreover, I don't know ifFix MBR on the second partition where Win 2K resides will confuse the bootup software that startsfrom the MSDOS partition (that is MSDOS has an MBR and the 2nd partition has Win 2K MBR as towhich of the MBR's is used and not affect my boot screen that allows me to select MSDOS or Win 2K).I realize I can't use the MSDOS fix mbr called "fdisk /mbr" on a Win2k NTFS since it will mess up the partitionand filenames etc; however, using the Win2k "fixmbr" on a MSDOS and Win2k system may work - maybe.Thus, the problem is is I can't use the installed "Recovery Console" to boot and fix Win 2K.I've read somewhere that sometimes the 0x7B can be set if the pagefile.sys is corrupt and that thesolution to it is to get into the Recovery Console and delete this file since on next reboot a new fileshould be created. However, I can't get this far to try it!!!How can I fix this problem? Note: running chkdisk /f /r or using the Windows 2K checkdisk under disk propertieson both the MSDOS and Win2k filesystems doesn' find anything wrong other than a few indexeswhich it corrected.
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