Xldr Ata!

Hi everyone

I hope someone out there can PLEASE help me

Inspiron 6400
Deleted recovery partition
Did NOT delete Media Direct partition

Loaded XP SP2 and have been running with it for 6 months. Everything was working 100%.

Notebook powered off - pressed the Media Direct button - Media Direct would launch.

Notebook powered on - pressed the Media Direct button - Media Direct would launch.

Decided that it was time to do a re-load from a Norton Ghost Image.

Restored from my Norton Ghost Image. Windows started as I expected.

Booted from the Media Direct CD, C:\MD2\repair.bat was run - it said it was done.

Notebook restarted and came up with;

[XLDR] ATA!............and that's where it ends folks!

Please help

I have been reading about Partition Table Editor - I boot into Dos and run the PTEDIT.EXE and the values I get are;

From what I understand, my problem has something to do with Windows writing over the Dell's specific boot record and all I need to do is fix it!

So when I run the utility this is what I see - but I am not sure what I need to do!

Hard Disk; (I am able to select 2 hard Drives - the 250MB I assume is the Media Direct partition)
Drive1(250MB)
Drive2(93958MB)

So for Drive 1 I see

1..0C..80..0..1..1..30..254..63..63..511937
2..........ALL 0'S
3..........ALL 0'S
4..........ALL 0'S

And for drive 2 I see

1..DE..00..0..1..1..1023..254..63..63..192410442
2..........ALL 0'S
3..........ALL 0'S
4..........ALL 0'S

Thanks in advance for the help.

Stomies

 

Hi everyone

I have sorted this out - I replaced the values from row 1 to row 2 and in row 2 changed DE to equal 07 and volla Oh yea replaced all values in Row 1 with 0's.

http://www.notebookforums.com/thread151779.html

What a relief

Stormies