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Questions about Startup Repair
I worked on a computer recently that couldn't boot from the primary hard drive which had Windows XP x64 installed. I was able to access the drive after booting from UBCD4WIN and run chkdsk on it, but this didn't resolve the problem. I didn't have an XPx64 OS disc to boot the system with and try a repair install. Trying to boot with XPx86 caused the system to blue screen. I'm guessing there was a problem with the MBR, but can the MBR be repaired properly if the system is booted from a 32 bit OS? Alternatively would it have been possible to repair the system by booting with a Windows 7x64 disc and running Startup Repair? Last, is it possible to get XPx64 media at this point? TIA