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Name: Sandy
Date: September 3, 1999 at 09:30:08 Pacific
Subject: invalid media type |
Comment: Bad boot sector on a hard drive. Anything I can do before paying BIG bucks for a data recovery specialist to retrieve the files???
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Name: Don
Date: September 3, 1999 at 20:51:53 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)Since none of the smart guys have answered this I'll say what little I think I know. The master boot record directs the bios to the boot sector which loads the operating system. "fdisk mbr" rewrites the master boot record.
I think "sys c:" rewrites the boot sector. Boot sector problems can be caused by a virus.
Repost if what I suggested doesn't help. And tell your symptoms and error message.
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