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Can't directly boot XP with BTTR BootMgr (Users)

posted by mht , Wroclaw, Poland, 28.02.2009, 18:28

Was it PQM's NTFS formatting the culprit or not -- anyway, on eln's faulty partition, the sectors 1..15 contained just zeroes, instead of the remainder of the NTLDR bootstrap code. The loader from sector 0 was loading and running these zeroes with a known effect. The problem has been finally solved by copying these 15 sectors from a correct bootable NTFS partition.

Complete thread:

• Can't directly boot XP with BTTR BootMgr - eln, 13.02.2009, 22:52 (Users)
  • Can't directly boot XP with BTTR BootMgr - rr, 13.02.2009, 23:20
    • Can't directly boot XP with BTTR BootMgr - eln, 14.02.2009, 01:00
      • Can't directly boot XP with BTTR BootMgr - mht, 14.02.2009, 07:19
        • Can't directly boot XP with BTTR BootMgr - eln, 14.02.2009, 11:42
          • Can't directly boot XP with BTTR BootMgr - mht, 14.02.2009, 17:56
          • Can't directly boot XP with BTTR BootMgr - rr, 14.02.2009, 19:02
            • Can't directly boot XP with BTTR BootMgr - eln, 15.02.2009, 14:29
              • Can't directly boot XP with BTTR BootMgr - rr, 15.02.2009, 14:50
                • Can't directly boot XP with BTTR BootMgr - RayeR, 16.02.2009, 12:12
                  • Can't directly boot XP with BTTR BootMgr - RayeR, 27.02.2009, 02:14
                    • Can't directly boot XP with BTTR BootMgr - rr, 28.02.2009, 00:15
                  • Can't directly boot XP with BTTR BootMgr - mht, 28.02.2009, 18:28
                    • Can't directly boot XP with BTTR BootMgr - rr, 28.02.2009, 20:25