Help - XP Pro - Partition problems

[ICFire]

So I updated the bios on my Asus A7M266 and it went w/o a hitch.

...until I rebooted

...after rebooting OS told me I had a corrupt file (though it didn't say which file, just where it was). I tried sticking in the CD to repair...but before I got to that screen it would bsod on me...

I finally got it to boot in safe mode.

Then I got it to boot in normal mode...all is good....not

Now my storage partitions are "unknown paritions" and they all were ntfs partitions.

I have a 100G and 40G hard drives in this unit. 100G is my boot drive...boot partition is 40G, then I have another 40G partition on it. I have a 2nd 40G drive in it that's divided into 2-20G partitions. ALL partitions except the boot partition are now known as "unknown" partition.

Any suggestions?



ICFire

 

[ANGEL14]

try this
boot up with the WIN-XP cd go into repair mode and than into recovery console... now type "fixboot" and than when it asks u a question answer "yes" now when thats done type "fixmbr" again the same procedure.. i think this should work else letme know... will try to help

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[ICFire]

Thanks, I'm going to try that.

Stupid question time - I set my own account up as administrator...and have forgotten my true administrator pw.

....workaround for this little snag?


ICFire

 

[Toejam31]

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I hope you created a password recovery disk.

Toejam31

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