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RJK
PC is a Dell "VOSTRO" ...Intel based E4500 (2.2ghz) ...Vista Home Premium
Just before Christmas it wouldn't boot up i.e. hanging on a black screen
with "Boot from CD" upper left, so ran Spinrite 6 hd "scan for surface
defects" on the main/boot partition C: which, (somehow), fixed it.
Yesterday the PC started doing it again (blk scrn / "Boot fromCD"),
...booted from Spinrite 6 cd, and scanned for surface defects, this time on
all partitions - which again has fixed the problem but, for how long I am
now wondering
Question is, where is the MBR located / can it be moved to somehwere else on
the hd platter, or is maybe the boot sector area of the hd going bad ?
I've been reading up on Viste i.e. I see that Vista does not have a boot.ini
like XP and that there is a BootMGR in a "boot" directory etc. :-(
....any tips GLADLY appreciated.
TIA
regards, Richard
( sorry, ...cross posted to XP cause that's really all I know about, and
there's bound to XP guru's in here that are getting to grips with Vista ! )
Just before Christmas it wouldn't boot up i.e. hanging on a black screen
with "Boot from CD" upper left, so ran Spinrite 6 hd "scan for surface
defects" on the main/boot partition C: which, (somehow), fixed it.
Yesterday the PC started doing it again (blk scrn / "Boot fromCD"),
...booted from Spinrite 6 cd, and scanned for surface defects, this time on
all partitions - which again has fixed the problem but, for how long I am
now wondering
Question is, where is the MBR located / can it be moved to somehwere else on
the hd platter, or is maybe the boot sector area of the hd going bad ?
I've been reading up on Viste i.e. I see that Vista does not have a boot.ini
like XP and that there is a BootMGR in a "boot" directory etc. :-(
....any tips GLADLY appreciated.
TIA
regards, Richard
( sorry, ...cross posted to XP cause that's really all I know about, and
there's bound to XP guru's in here that are getting to grips with Vista ! )