Corrupt XP install

EirePlane

EirePlane

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Installed Solaris last night and it's messed up my windows install. once it was installed, the vista bootloader failed to load XP.
I have run fixboot and fixmbr from the install disk and still not working.
After that, it started telling me it couldn't find NTLDR, so I copied that from the install disk too as well as ntdetect.com but I was still getting the same message

I have since done a fresh install on another drive and can get access to everything in the corrupt install except my User folder in "Documents and Settings" (access is denied). I got curious and decided to take a look at it in the disk manager which is showing it as a Logical Partition E:\ (It was a physical partition before with drive letter C:\)

Is there any way of getting this corrupt install to work again? I really dont want to lose all my work and settings

Cheers,
Mitchel
 
you may need to re-take ownership of the folder

my computer > double click that > go into tools and folder options

select view

scroll down to bottom > untick use simple file sharing

get to folder that you cant access

right click it and click properties

click security tab

bottom right of the window that comes up, click advanced

click owner tab

tick box "replace owner on subcontainers and objects"

click apply

this should allow to either view the files or set permissions which would then allow you to view them

go back into the security tab to set permissions, just give your account full control,
 
Thanks, that got me access to the folder.
I tried running fixboot and fixmbr again but it seems to have corrupted the MBR, now neither drive will boot and Windows will not install. I am currently typing this on a liveCD of Ubuntu.
My BIOS does not detect the hard drives anymore and neither does GParted, Ubuntu's disk manager however does (although it shows up as having no partitions)
is there:
A: any way of recovering data from the drive and putting it onto another drive
B: Any way of getting the drives working again? (maybe wiping them and creating a blank MBR???)

Any help greatly appreciated
Cheers,
Mitchel
 
Had a sim. problem only the other week with friends sys. he lost the partions so bought the drive around and we fitted it into a remote HD sys. and ran it from my main machine.
Showed up as unformated disk, looked at it in Linux and the files are all there, so ran partion magic on it and set it to recover partion, bingo found and reset partion, ran it severel times and recovered all the partions and on reinstalling it in his machine booted and ran fine.
Partion magic is the fixer!!!!!
 
thanks, using partition magic has at least got the drive showing up again but now when I try too boot from it it says "Disk Read Error. Press Ctrl + Alt + Del to restart" just after POST
 
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