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Invalid Partition Table
Name: Bob Date: August 27, 2003 at 11:07:05 Pacific OS: Win 2000 CPU/Ram: PII, 300
Comment:
hi, everytime i turn on my computer i get a error saying "invalid partition table". I've tried booting off a boot disk and windows 2000 cd, none of which work. Can someone tell me how i could fix this problem? This is kind of urgent.
Name: Dave02 Date: August 27, 2003 at 11:34:41 Pacific
Reply:
Fire that puppy off with a start up disk and make sure it has fdisk on it. Once it boots up and you are sitting at the A:> prompt, type the following: fdisk /mbr. Take the floppy out and reboot.
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Response Number 2
Name: Bob Date: August 27, 2003 at 15:13:46 Pacific
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can someone tell me which operating system's boot disk has fdisk on it? and does the boot disk have to be for windows 2000 because i'm running windows 2000, or can it be for any operating system?
thanks
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Response Number 3
Name: Goldenknob Date: August 27, 2003 at 15:17:54 Pacific
Reply:
windows 98 does
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Response Number 4
Name: cary Date: August 27, 2003 at 20:43:41 Pacific
Reply:
If you are using NTFS the above suggestion will not work. What kind of a problem are you running into when you try to boot from the Win2K CD? Is the CD first in the bios boot sequence?
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Response Number 5
Name: Bob Date: August 28, 2003 at 22:36:59 Pacific
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why wont the boot disk work? i'm not sure if my harddrive is ntfs, might be fat or fat32. i cant seem to find the boot sequence in the bios. i'm trying to find my user manual for my motherboard. What good will booting off a win 2000 cd do?
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