Master Boot Agent on a Hard Drive

G

Guest

Ok, so I am having a little trouble with my 250 gb hard drive. Somehow,
there is a Master Boot Agent (MBA) on it and regardless if it is set up and
plugged in as a slave drive, it sets itself up to be the master hard drive
that the computer boots to and the computer says there is no operating
system, which it does not have. It has done this on multiple computers.
Once the hard drive is removed from a computer, that computer will then boot
to the other hard drive that is connected to it with an operating system. My
question is: Is there any way to remove the MBA? The hard drive isn't
recognized by our back up system at work, and most attempts to access the MBA
and remove it have yielded that the computer does not recognize that the
drive is there. I don't want to resort to sending the drive away and paying
a crap load of money to retreive all of that data either. Any
suggestions/help?
 
J

Jean Rosenfeld

Could you perhaps put it in an external USB-connected hard drive caddy.
Start the PC, then connect the caddy, then format the drive on it?
 

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