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re: failure of HD to boot up
Thursday, March 20, 2008 at 9:47 pm
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by LV SHANG
(335 messages posted)
Try this :
Boot w/ 98SE boot disk. Fdisk, select the hdd in question, issue cmd :fdisk /mbr.
good luck, Regards
On Thursday, March 20, 2008 at 2:45 pm, delphcommon wrote:
>My brothers pc running 98SE fails to start, message that cannot find boot sector.
>I have tried the following to no avail, can anyone make any more suggestions, thanks.
>Unfortunately there are photos that have not been backed up and I therefore wish
>to avoid a full repartion or format if I can.
>
>I have tried loading boot files from 98 boot disk using commands researched on web:-
>SYS c: and SYS a: c: both have returned bad command.
>
>I have viewed partitions using fdisk and it says there are non, why this is the
case
>I have no idea as it has previously been working until this failure.
>
>I have slaved it to my own, running xp pro and whilst device manager recognises
the
>HD, I cannot view it or even locate it outside device manager. Also a virus check
>returned negative results.
>
>is the hard drive damaged? could partitions be deleted in any way without knowledge
>of user?
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