Am workng through a similar probelm on a W2K box.  The primary C:\ partition of 15gb 
has failed but the other two partitions are in good order.  Here's what's been tried 
so far;

FDISK /MBR = The command executed but failed to effect the problem.

Ran Easy Recovery on the partition and it indicated there was no physical problem 
with the hardware.

Partition Magic 8 (from Floppy) gave an Error #91 followed by an Error #87.  Attempting 
the same load from a boot CD gave the same results.

Windows Resuce Boot Floppy failed with a less than memorable message.

Windows repair utility from the OS CD failed to find the drive.  Repair Console commands 
are being reserched to see determine repair options.

Am now moving files off of the two other (good)partitions on the drive before proceeding 
with the repairs.

Most of the repair tools used can be found at http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/ or hirensbootcd. 
 

Once file retreival has been achieved, the drive will be reimaged from a drive image 
made a little over a month ago.  And would have been do it i had made a copy of one 
directory there is no copy of and the user profile. 

Hope this helps somebody out.  

Best Advice: Make drive images often and use a live backup application like Datakeeper. 
  I didn't and so far its cost me 8 hours.  







On Monday, December 27, 2004 at 4:06 pm, Bill wrote:

>First of all, thanks in advance to all that can help me.

>

>Here's my problem with my desktop. I usually don't turn the computer off and just 

>put it in sleep mode until I have to use it again. So far, I've never had a problem 

>when doing this. Recently I did turn the entire computer off because we took a trip 

>out of state. Now I go to turn the computer back on, and all I get is a black screen 

>with a message "error loading OS." I had all the updated antivirus definitions, 
and 

>two good firewalls on this computer so I'm kinda lost as to what the problem could 

>be or how to fix it. Any and all help is greatly appreciated. 

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