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Boot disk record
Name: gws120 Date: August 9, 2002 at 23:10:28 Pacific
Comment:
I have to boot my computer at least twice each time I try to book up. When I have Norton's doctor to do a scan it gives me the message that I have an invalide tabell in my boot record and that it cannot repair it. I saw an answer on line that this problem could be corrected with "fdisk/mbr" How exactly do I do that?
Name: Steve Date: August 10, 2002 at 05:27:03 Pacific
Reply:
Check your boot disk to see if it has fdisk on it (some do some don't and I don't know what OS you have)if not copy it over to the boot disk.(do find from the start menu Win9x)For Dos versions etc. it's in the Dos directory (copy c:\dos\fdisk.exe a:) then start from the boot disk and type fdisk /mbr (dont forget the space in the middle....)
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