FIXMBR Windows XP Fdisk /MBR Tool

The FIXMBR tool does for Windows XP what Fdisk /MBR did for DOS. To access this command you need to startup your computer in the Recovery Console. This is accomplished using your original Windows XP install disk. To boot your computer from the install disk you might need to change the BIOS setting for first boot device. To do this you will need to restart your computer and press the delete key (on some computers it might be F1 - as the computer boots there is usually a message at the bottom of the screen telling which key to press to enter setup) until the BIOS setup screen appears. Then you will enter the boot options and select the CDROM as the first boot device and the hard drive as the second boot device. You also have the option of installing Recovery Console onto the hard drive and make it one of your startup options. Recovery Console provides many commands for editing and modifying files. There is also many other DOS like commands that you can use in Recovery Console, such as, cd (change directory), rd (remove directory), copy (copy files), del (delete files), md (make directory), format (format a partition), and many others. The FIXMBR command can be useful for restoring the MBR file if it becomes corrupted or infected. WARNING: Using this command can or will remove dual boot features and could result in not being able to access multiple boot operating systems. For more information about using FIXMBR command and the fdisk /mbr command checkout the following sites: Fdisk /MBR and FIXMBR.

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