  A word of advice: if you plan on using Norton Systemworks 2003, do *NOT* install Norton Goback. If you mess up your system, it will make thing WORSE than actually help you! I just spend the last 4 hours trying to fix my sisters and brother in law's PC that they bought only 3 weeks ago. When they bought it, I loaded it with stuff like Norton and some DVD burning tools. I also installed Goback. I figured that it would give better protection in case my sis (or her kids) would mess up their PC. However, this tuesday the PC crashed (XP Home edition) and after that it started to get into a vicious circle of rebooting, starting and the rebooting again. Off course they tried the restore option that Goback suggests. However that just didn't work and they called me. So when I inspected the PC I saw that after Goback gave its prompt (press space for restore options), it just didn't start and would reboot again. First I suspected that somehow the MBR got damaged or just the NTloader wouldn't work. So I booted from the XP cd, went into the recovery console and just used the FIXBOOT command and then the FIXMBR command. That didn't work and by doing so I also wiped the special Goback bootstrap. I didn't know it yet, but that just put me into more shit.
Somehow the driveletter were XP was appeared as I:\ and not C:\. This started me to suspect it was that damn Goback because 1 time I had the same problem with a W2K machine that had Quarterdeck Bootmagic installed. Using the recovery console I figured out that the volume (not the partition) wasn't accesible anymore. I then used PEbuilder to make a special XP boot CD with some diagnostic tools but again: I could not acces the volume. Even after making it the active volume. Then I decided to just use Partion Magic to examine the harddisk. Well there it was: the harddisk wasn't accesible for this program as well. I decided to look up the fysical info for the harddisk: it turned out to be a type 44. So, using google I figured out what was going on. Goback loads its own MBR version and also changes the identifier for the harddisk from 07 (NTFS) to 44 (RAW).
And neither XP or most tools can access it! Or so they think because in reality its just the identifier and it's not really type 44 disk. Now all I had to do is change it back to 7. But how? I looked again with google and came upon an article: it seemed that a tool called ptedit.exe could do this.
And I had it since I have Partition Magic! Praise the Lord! So about 4 hrs and a lot of sweat later, I managed to fix the problem simply by two clicks and a OK button, and it just restored XP as it used to be with all files etc. intact. Needless to say I immediately removed Goback. Norton really fucked up there! They should not mess with the damn harddisk identifier! You have been warned! 
