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track zero bad
Name: Maina Date: November 10, 2002 at 05:44:36 Pacific OS: windows 9x CPU/Ram: cel 1100mhz/128
Comment:
I have 20gb maxtor harddisk and now it cann't boot because of bad sector on track zero. how can windows 9x boot starting track 1 or any other track.
Name: wawadave Date: November 10, 2002 at 11:07:21 Pacific
Reply:
hello unless you can fined an old dos program that was called "disk edditor" witch could from dos eddit out sector zero and hide it and use sector 1 instead. the hard drive is toast. and even with diskedditor the o/s might still not boot becase of what ever data was on there would be lost and over riten for mbr. have you tryed with bootdisk a:sys c: ?
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Response Number 2
Name: Ace Date: November 10, 2002 at 17:35:45 Pacific
Reply:
I'm not really sure it will do that but "DISKEDIT.EXE" is easy to find. and anybody with norton utilities has it in "c:\program files\symantec\NORTON UTILITIES" OR you can downloaded: http://textil.ege.edu.tr/archive/Diger_Programlar/diskedit.exe http://www.simtel.net/pub/pd/60815.html
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