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| Thread ID: 63226 | 2005-11-02 08:16:00 | Corrupted Master Boot Record | dvlusty (7252) | Press F1 |
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| 401369 | 2005-11-02 08:16:00 | I have just reformatted my hard drive because of constant problems. Now I have a worse problem. I am running Norton AntiVirus, Partition Magic and GoBack 4.0 with XP Home upgraded to SP2. GoBack takes almost a full minute to go through its offer to allow you to revert the drive before Windows starts up. The hard drive will boot up after this delay. A drive reversion takes forever. Symantec's very prompt reply confirms my suspicions that I have a corrupted Master Boot Record (MBR). Their advice is to use XP's Recovery Console to fix the MBR. However, I am unable to get the XP CD to boot so I cannot get that far. The CD is OK because I used it in the reformatting procedure earlier. I have tried to make a bootable floppy to get to the same area but all the instructions available are for XP Home and XP Home SP1. In Win 98 I have achieved this and it was a breeze - this is an impossible situation. Do I have to purchase a US$50 program to do the job? |
dvlusty (7252) | ||
| 401370 | 2005-11-02 08:45:00 | Did Goback disable System restore?? BOTH shouldn't be running at the same time. You'll have probs. |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 401371 | 2005-11-02 08:53:00 | if you have a fat32 drive try use fdisk.exe /MBR from you win98 bootdisk | DangerousDave (697) | ||
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