I have a test system at work which has a hard drive with 3 partitions - Partition 1 FAT DOS boot created ( I think ) from a Windows 98SE DOS boot disk Partition 2 NTFS XP Pro Boot Partition 3 NTFS data The boot menu was to default to XP with the option to select DOS instead within 10 secs. I was trying to copy some files from a Win 98 DOS bootable USB pen to another. What I forgot to do was unplug the hard drive so when I typed SYS D: instead of transferring the system to the second USB pen as intended I transferred it to the hard drive ......... Now of course the hard drive boots to DOS only. Any suggestions restore the boot menu and run XP again will be appreciated. I assume the data in the third partition is still safe. There should be nothing irreplaceable on that partition but other copies will be scattered in several places.
To help anyone else I sorted this by booting from the XP Pro install CD to the recovery console then running fixboot.