{"id":209,"date":"2004-10-21T06:29:00","date_gmt":"2004-10-21T13:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kb.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb-articles\/how-to-rebuild-the-boot-sector-for-windows-2000-xp\/"},"modified":"2021-09-07T15:29:45","modified_gmt":"2021-09-07T22:29:45","slug":"how-to-rebuild-the-boot-sector-for-windows-2000-xp","status":"publish","type":"lsvr_kba","link":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/kb-articles\/how-to-rebuild-the-boot-sector-for-windows-2000-xp\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Rebuild the Boot Sector for Windows 2000\/XP"},"content":{"rendered":"

You can use the following steps to rebuild the Win2K\/XP boot sector, should it be needed.<\/p>\r\n

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  1. If using BootIt BM, make sure the partition table is loaded with your target partition. <\/li>\r\n
  2. Boot the Win2K\/XP installation media to start setup. <\/li>\r\n
  3. At the menu choose 'R' for Repair. <\/li>\r\n
  4. At the repair options menu choose 'C' for the Recovery Console. <\/li>\r\n
  5. Enter fixboot c:<\/font><\/strong> and press ENTER (where c:<\/strong> is the drive letter assigned to the partition to have the boot sector rewritten). <\/li>\r\n <\/ol>\r\n

    Note:<\/strong> The Windows Vista or Windows 7\/8.x\/10 bootsect program could also be used to repair the boot sector. See the Additional Information<\/em> section of How to Rebuild the Boot Sector for Windows Vista and Windows 7\/8.x\/10<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\r\n

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    You can use the following steps to rebuild the Win2K\/XP boot sector, should it be needed. If using BootIt BM, make sure the partition table is loaded with your target partition. Boot the Win2K\/XP installation media to start setup. At the menu choose ‘R’ for Repair. At the repair options menu choose ‘C’ for the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"lsvr_kba_cat":[1782],"lsvr_kba_tag":[2127,2147,2145,2146],"class_list":["post-209","lsvr_kba","type-lsvr_kba","status-publish","hentry","lsvr_kba_cat-nt-2k-xp-2003","lsvr_kba_tag-windows","lsvr_kba_tag-windows-2003","lsvr_kba_tag-windows-2k","lsvr_kba_tag-windows-xp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lsvr_kba\/209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lsvr_kba"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/lsvr_kba"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lsvr_kba\/209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6136,"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lsvr_kba\/209\/revisions\/6136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"lsvr_kba_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lsvr_kba_cat?post=209"},{"taxonomy":"lsvr_kba_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lsvr_kba_tag?post=209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}