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re: Norton Corrupting MBR?
Saturday, May 10, 2008 at 1:16 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Alvar Kresh
(53 messages posted)
Try contacting Symantec Tech support?
On Saturday, May 10, 2008 at 8:14 am, Jeff wrote:
>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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- Norton Corrupting MBR? (Jeff: Saturday, May 10, 2008 at 8:14 am)
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