Hard drive has bad MBR but files can be seen

[Jonathan Zhuang]

I have a hard drive which has bad MBR so it can't boot, but files in
the hard drive can be seen from other hard drive if that one has OS
installed. So the partially bad hard disk can work as an additional
hard drive, e.g. D: drive, if we do not boot it.

Is it possible to totally recover the bad MBR?

 

[Rod Speed]

I have a hard drive which has bad MBR so it can't boot, but files in
the hard drive can be seen from other hard drive if that one has OS
installed. So the partially bad hard disk can work as an additional
hard drive, e.g. D: drive, if we do not boot it.

Is it possible to totally recover the bad MBR?

You dont say which OS.

If its Win9x etc, try the

fdisk /mbr

command when booted from a startup floppy with it as the boot drive.

 

[Joep]

You dont say which OS.

If its Win9x etc, try the

fdisk /mbr

command when booted from a startup floppy with it as the boot drive.

In addition to that make sure *one* partition is set acive. If bootcode is
present in the MBR (fdisk/mbr does that) and the partition you want to boot
to is active and the PC still doesn't boot, then the issue is probably not
the MBR but elsewhere.

Joep

 

[Barry OGrady]

In addition to that make sure *one* partition is set acive. If bootcode is
present in the MBR (fdisk/mbr does that) and the partition you want to boot
to is active and the PC still doesn't boot, then the issue is probably not
the MBR but elsewhere.

I was given a notebook that would not boot from the hard drive.
It turned out the hard drive was not made active.

Joep

-Barry
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