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Norton Corrupting MBR?
Saturday, May 10, 2008 at 8:14 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Jeff
(37 messages posted)
I set-up an XP workstation for our company with two 250GB SATA drives, with the OS
residing on SATA0 and the data on SATA1. I installed Norton Corporate AV 10.2, as
we have on all of our other PC's. Almost immediately the machine started going to
a black screen after the XP logo at bootup and just sit there. After much troubleshooting,
I got the OS back after executing a "fdisk /mbr" command via an old Windows 98 boot
floppy. However, the same sympton came back at the next bootup. After some head
scratching, it turned out that the Norton AV was the problem. After removing Norton,
all was OK. To be sure, I re-installed Norton and the problem returned - removed
it and all was well again. I then installed an older version of Norton Corporate
and the machine works fine. Any thoughts or suggestions? I contacted Norton about
this and as expected, they disavowed any responsibility for this mystery. Thanks.
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