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BOOT SECTOR CORRUPTION - URGENT HELP NEE!DED
Name: henri Date: November 13, 2000 at 23:48:49 Pacific
Comment:
HI I NEED URGENT HELP
THE BOOT SECTOR ON MY HDD (NTFS FORMAT) PICKED UP A CORRUPTION! DATA NOT ACESSABLE. IF I BOOT WITH MY WIN2K CD, IT TELLS ME THAT IT CANNOT FIND THE HDD. IT IS DEFINITELY A PHYSICAL DAMAGE. IT IS NOT POSSIBLE TO ACCESS THE PRIMARY PARTITION IF I INSTALL THE HDD IN ANOTHER PC, AS WIN2K PREVENTS ONE FROM ACCESSING A BOOT PARTITION IN THIS WAY.
Name: Vadim P. Date: November 14, 2000 at 01:34:20 Pacific
Reply:
If you want to have direct access to your hard disk you may try MS/DOS 6.x bootable diskette. And then you may use Norton Disk Editor from Norton Utilities for sector by sector viewing / editing your hard disk. At your own risk :)
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Response Number 2
Name: otto Date: November 14, 2000 at 04:01:59 Pacific
Reply:
take your cd's with your backup's, et voille
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Response Number 3
Name: Rune Date: November 18, 2000 at 02:35:37 Pacific
Reply:
The same thing happened to me,during removing a linux dualboot partition on my win2k disk. I used the Dos command :fdisk/mbr to restore the master boot record.It worked!!!
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