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Corrupt boot sector
Does anyone know of any program that I could run to see if my boot sector is
corrupt? I have a Maxtor 250 hard drive and when I restarted my computer I got a "Disk boot failure. Insert system disk and press enter". I pressed enter 3 times only to receive the same error. However, when I completely shutdown the computer and rebooted the 4th time, it was fine. After installing a program, I needed to reboot again only to come to an infinite looping self rebooting state. Currently I'm running a diagnostic test with PowerMax boot diskette. No results as of yet. If it turns out that everything passed diagnostics, what should I do? TIA, Newtechie |
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Corrupt boot sector
Don't know of a tool to check it, but you can boot to the WinXP Recovery
console on CD and at the command line type "FIXMBR" and it will overwrite "whatever" is there with the NT BootLoader/BootStrap code. While you are there, you might as well do a "FIXBOOT", which will create a new "BOOT.INI" file with the correct ARC commands to boot all valid "WINDOWS" OS's found on the system. -- Star Fleet Admiral Q @ your service! "Google is your Friend!" www.google.com *********************************************** "Newtechie" wrote in message ... Does anyone know of any program that I could run to see if my boot sector is corrupt? I have a Maxtor 250 hard drive and when I restarted my computer I got a "Disk boot failure. Insert system disk and press enter". I pressed enter 3 times only to receive the same error. However, when I completely shutdown the computer and rebooted the 4th time, it was fine. After installing a program, I needed to reboot again only to come to an infinite looping self rebooting state. Currently I'm running a diagnostic test with PowerMax boot diskette. No results as of yet. If it turns out that everything passed diagnostics, what should I do? TIA, Newtechie |
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Hi Admiral,
Thanks for your response. However, that didn't work. I actually tried that after the diagnostics finished. I still got the restart loop. I booted with the XP cd and went into the recovery console and did a c:\map. It showed the C drive having a partition but was was strange is that it didn't have a file system. I don't know how that was possible when I had just finish using the computer before all of this happened. So I decided to format the drive again which took about an hour. Now when I go to restart and finish the installation I get an error saying "ntldr is missing". How do I get pass that? Newtechie "Admiral Q" wrote in message ... Don't know of a tool to check it, but you can boot to the WinXP Recovery console on CD and at the command line type "FIXMBR" and it will overwrite "whatever" is there with the NT BootLoader/BootStrap code. While you are there, you might as well do a "FIXBOOT", which will create a new "BOOT.INI" file with the correct ARC commands to boot all valid "WINDOWS" OS's found on the system. -- Star Fleet Admiral Q @ your service! "Google is your Friend!" www.google.com *********************************************** "Newtechie" wrote in message ... Does anyone know of any program that I could run to see if my boot sector is corrupt? I have a Maxtor 250 hard drive and when I restarted my computer I got a "Disk boot failure. Insert system disk and press enter". I pressed enter 3 times only to receive the same error. However, when I completely shutdown the computer and rebooted the 4th time, it was fine. After installing a program, I needed to reboot again only to come to an infinite looping self rebooting state. Currently I'm running a diagnostic test with PowerMax boot diskette. No results as of yet. If it turns out that everything passed diagnostics, what should I do? TIA, Newtechie |
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Have a read of this:
http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;320397 -- HTH - Any Advice Appreciated - Please Reply To Newsgroup Only jel183(UK) "Newtechie" wrote in message ... Hi Admiral, Thanks for your response. However, that didn't work. I actually tried that after the diagnostics finished. I still got the restart loop. I booted with the XP cd and went into the recovery console and did a c:\map. It showed the C drive having a partition but was was strange is that it didn't have a file system. I don't know how that was possible when I had just finish using the computer before all of this happened. So I decided to format the drive again which took about an hour. Now when I go to restart and finish the installation I get an error saying "ntldr is missing". How do I get pass that? Newtechie "Admiral Q" wrote in message ... Don't know of a tool to check it, but you can boot to the WinXP Recovery console on CD and at the command line type "FIXMBR" and it will overwrite "whatever" is there with the NT BootLoader/BootStrap code. While you are there, you might as well do a "FIXBOOT", which will create a new "BOOT.INI" file with the correct ARC commands to boot all valid "WINDOWS" OS's found on the system. -- Star Fleet Admiral Q @ your service! "Google is your Friend!" www.google.com *********************************************** "Newtechie" wrote in message ... Does anyone know of any program that I could run to see if my boot sector is corrupt? I have a Maxtor 250 hard drive and when I restarted my computer I got a "Disk boot failure. Insert system disk and press enter". I pressed enter 3 times only to receive the same error. However, when I completely shutdown the computer and rebooted the 4th time, it was fine. After installing a program, I needed to reboot again only to come to an infinite looping self rebooting state. Currently I'm running a diagnostic test with PowerMax boot diskette. No results as of yet. If it turns out that everything passed diagnostics, what should I do? TIA, Newtechie |
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