WinXP Recovery

[Jack Black]

I recently crashed my computer. During the a Safe Mode sesssion I ran
AVG anti virus software and while it found no virus's it said :

Partition Table (MBR)...................................reading error
Boot Sector of Disk C..................................reading error

An attempt at booting from Acronis floppies also found a reading
error.


I put the XP Disc in my CD-Rom Drive and I tried recovery and my
computer boot up like normal.

Can anyone explain what happened.?
Is their a tutorial that explains the recovery function for windows?

thanks

 

[Rick \Nutcase\ Rogers]

Hi,

It could be normal, third party imaging and recovery software, as well as
third party boot managers, sometimes alter the bootstrap to a non-standard
mbr. Generally, if there is an error reading the mbr, the solution would be
to load the recovery console and run fixmbr, or alternately, boot a startup
floppy and run fdisk /mbr (they do the same thing). Any AV program scanning
the boot sector will likely report errors if it finds a non-standard boot
code there.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org