I have accedently deleted my boot sector today, i am currently using an old ide drive that i installed to help fix the problem. There are a ton of programs that help you restore boots sectors, but they all cost money, and i need to make sure i am using the right one. Is there any way to restore my boot sector, and use my hard drive as it was. I didn't partition over the drive yet. And i have used a few programs to restore the files, and i see that they are all there, but I can't restore the boot sector for sure, unless i buy them and try too. I'm running windows xp home SP2 if that helps any HELP ME SOMEBODY!!!

Some solutions here ? : How to Protect Boot Sector from Viruses in Windows http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;122221&Product=winxp

You can restore the boot sector by boot-ting from your Windows CD and selecting the first repair option. This will put you into the Recovery Console. You will need the Administrators Password for this. From the recovery console command line type Fixboot X: X being the drive you want to fix the boot record on. Reboot and you should be fine. Stuart