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But how would it help - if the mbr is the first sector on my hard drive, it seems fine. Fixboot doesn't just copy mbr, it took the boot sector from somewhere else.

I used fixboot, but before I did, I booted from a cd that had a disk editor on it and when I selected partition view, I saw that in its first sector(63), was that message I have been recieving - freedos root_. Now when I used fixboot, I get another message - disk error, press any key to restart. So I used the disk editor again and found this message in the same place.

I don't know if that wouldn't damage something else. If you are sure, I'll try it.

I tried the rc.iso, it worked, but I didn't run any commands to prevent inflicting further damage.

Yes, I certainly have a floppy drive in the pc. I can't say why it doesn't boot from the cd, although I hadn't any problems with the disk drive before, so it's a software problem - either with the pc, or the cd isn't bootable.

Yes the cdrom definitely works.

First it as before, displays the message for the cd - no emulation and ntldr not found and below it, freedos root_. That's all I get when I don't put in the cd. No emulation was there before, for the cd, just didn't mention it. I still don't know what happened to the pc when I used that command on the freedos disk.

I tried that and nothing changed. For the cd it still says no emulation and ntldr not found.

It says "system recovery". The cdrom is set properly, I haven't had any boot up problems with it before. I can't test to see if the problem with booting up from the cdrom lies with the cd or the files or settings, because right now I don't have other boot cds.

It recognises the cd and I suppose the disk is bootable, still it cannot boot - instead I get the message(for the cd) - can't find ntldr. At that point above it's displayed that cd is master disk.

Yes I changed the boot up order. But the cd doesn't boot.

I used xp cd, but it doesn't boot.

No, I can't boot because I tried using it.

I now tried booting from the system recovery cd and I get the message - can't find ntldr. I don't even know where the problem is, moreover I can't even boot from the cd. I still get that freedos root_. Thanks for help. If possible, offer the most productive and non invasive solutions(no reinstallations).

I booted from freedos and used kernel.sys or sys(don't remember which) on c:, like this sys(or kernel.sys) c:. T first I remember I used it without any parameters, hoping to see help of some sort or description, but also /? didn't work I used it on c:. Now when i boot up I get fredos root_ Please help.