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re: Boot sector
Monday, November 7, 2005 at 6:53 pm
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Posted by Kiwi (2096 messages posted)


You can try this:

Fdisk /MBR

It can't hurt, and it just may be what is needed. There is a space, I'm fairly certain, between the "K" character and the forward slash.

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Kiwi

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On Monday, November 7, 2005 at 5:59 pm, Yann wrote:

>Simple problem. Anti virus says that boot sector on C cannot be read. Still, I
>am able to boot my computer, load Windows, and everything works fine… except for
>scandisk, that doesn't work well running under Win (although it runs fine in DOS)
>; and defrag, which is unable to make up an overview of all the clusters, and therefore
>isn't able to defrag at all. How can I fix this boot sector (reading) error without
>damaging the content of the hard drive ? Thanks.


Written in response to:
Boot sector (Yann: Monday, November 7, 2005 at 5:59 pm)

Responses to this message:
*re: Boot sector (gewg_: Monday, November 7, 2005 at 8:01 pm)
*"It can't hurt"...know what the consequences of your posts are! NOT A GOOD IDEA WITHOUT DETAILS.... (JmC: Monday, November 7, 2005 at 10:14 pm)

All messages in this thread [show all]
-Boot sector (Yann: Mon, Nov 7, 2005, 5:59 pm)
-re: Boot sector (Kiwi: Mon, Nov 7, 2005, 6:53 pm)
*re: Boot sector (gewg_: Mon, Nov 7, 2005, 8:01 pm)
*"It can't hurt"...know what the consequences of your posts are! NOT A GOOD IDEA WITHOUT DETAILS.... (JmC: Mon, Nov 7, 2005, 10:14 pm)
*re: Boot sector (JmC: Mon, Nov 7, 2005, 10:21 pm)
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