WinXP Recovery

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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
 
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
 

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