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To verify, I did the whole process again, from the original image, and also again verified that fixmbr and fixboot made the problem worse, and were not necessary for the fix. I compared these to the bad VM, and worked through the differences one by one, until I found this magic byte.

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I know it seems strange, but this worked for me.ДЇor interest, how did I find this out? I created a fresh install over a copy of the bad VM disk image, and then when it was working I took hex dumps of the MBR and boot sector. The VM now booted - an (almost) exact replica of my old WInXP PC!.

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SO the PC in question is a Dell Dimension XPS Pro 200n (Pentium Pro 200, 32mb ram, S3 Virge GPU) and I am unsure of how to boot to a CD or if I am forced to boot to floppy.

Install any service packs or system updates Yep you read the title right I just got a DoS game and I would like to get windows installed on this dang thing.

Now boot the VM off a System CD (Win XP in my case), and do a install repair.

The disk image was healed - to a degree.

Shutdown the VM, and then in settings, detach the drive image from step 1.

I tried using my external DVD Burner drive, but to no avail. The only supported method of repair is a server reinstall (boot from DVD and select server reinstallation, not a new installation). If that doesnt help, you still can try to rewrite the MBR. Try to run chkdsk c: /r from within that prompt.

Confirm the byte 0xF0 is at offset 0x1A (26), and change it to 0xFF and write the sector I have also tried using a knoppix LiveCD (something I read about on several forum threads), but all I get is a message telling me there is not bootable media. you can try to boot from a Vista DVD and from within its system repair tools open a command prompt.

Note that depending on how you select the disk, this is either sector 0, or sector 63

Run this editor, and look at sector 63 on the non-working drive image.

Boot the working VM, and install a low level sector editor (Google!).

n the long test and let it run to completion.this will take awhile.

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2nd thing you should do is find out who makes your HDD and DLoad and run the FREE diagnostics from the manuf. Boot Menu on 0 selected:Select:CD/DVD/CD-RW it loads file from re-install disc as far as to'Examining 7327 MB Disk 0 at ID 0 on bus. 1st thing to do is replace your CMOS battery.bout the size of a dime on the MBoard.you will have to reset all the time settings.

Attach the non booting drive image as a second drive on a working VM Boot Menu on 0:Select Hard Drive:Same message as above appears.

Also, connect a USB drive (or a CD/DVD) that you wish to convert to bootable media. Sector 63 offset 0x1A was 0xF0, and this byte needed to be changed to 0xFF. Firstly, install Recoverit on any other functioning computer and launch it. I solved this, and thought i would share my solution:Д«y comparing sectors to a working VM, I found that the following change was needed:

Windows xp boot disk read error occurred