I have a Lenovo Thinkpad T60p. All of a sudden my wireless stopped working for no reason. Reinstalled drivers, no dice. Ended up reinstalling with an OEM CD my dad had. I ended up using Nlite to slipstream the SATA drivers onto an XP disk image (I have no floppy drive). Worked fine, but I booted, installed wireless drivers, and it still wouldn't connect. So I attempted to reboot. It got past the POST and gave me an error saying "error loading operating system." I'm assuming it's something with the MBR because I cannot get into Grub to choose to boot into Windows or Ubuntu.
Any ideas about what it is? Or at the very least how to fix my MBR without a floppy?
I went into the recovery console and ran fixmbr (MS doesn't include FDISK in the recovery console), and everything booted perfectly fine until I had to reboot. Now I'm back at square one. I tried creating a new boot sector with fixboot, no dice. The only way I can boot is if I run fixmbr every time I reboot, then it takes me to the Windows bootloader, letting me choose between WinXP Home and Pro (I just installed Pro, Home came with the machine). If I choose Pro, it says something about the operating system not being able to boot because of something corrupted or something, standard MS general error message. But if I choose Home, it loads the XP Pro install. Weird, but probably just a discrepancy in the boot.ini. I still can't figure out why my MBR is being so stubborn.
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1 Xcalaber69 // Jul 13, 2008
put in your boot able XP install disk, let it boot to it and use the repair tool, their is 2 of them you want the first one. Let it boot up to the repair section, you will have a black screen on that black screen type in fdisk /mbr that should fix the MBR. Also it looks like you are duel booting with lynux and windows the boot loader is built into your Lynux so you might have to reinstall the boot manager.
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