How many people do we get here [posted in the newsgroup comp. The mechanism for this is much the same as in 1 above. Such large disk drivers which are effectively a software BIOS extension are quite common. A virus that leaves the partition table in place, but stores critical viral variables in what is normally the bootstrap code portion of the MBR.
A currently unimplemented virus attack I will not describe in detail here. I could have named examples of the first five, though the risk in doing that is people who do not know better will think they are the only possibilities , rule them out and blunder on.
What can you do? Use some sort of utility to make a backup copy of the critical areas on your disk and save those copies to a recovery floppy. There are a number of commercial utility products and even some anti-virus software that will do this for you and, if you care to experiment and search some, even some free ones.
The errors you are getting in your other comment can be caused by many things. The BIOS may not be set correctly to recognize the disk. The disk itself may be bad that was the case when I got similar messages awhile back. The controller may be bad either overall or relating to that particular disk. The cable may have small stress breaks in it from being changed multiple times. See if the diagnostics that should have come with the drive can recognize the disk at least as a starting point.
You need to fix the MBR to make your computer boot again normally. The following are the detailed steps: 1. When you are prompted "Press any key to boot from CD", press a key.
Once the welcome screen appear, press 'R' to enter 'Recovery Console' not Windows setup process. After the Recovery Console loads, select the Windows installation which needs repairing. All comments are reviewed, and may be edited or removed at the discretion of the moderator.
If you want to ask a question click here. Need tech support? Category: Hard-Drives , Windows. Got a Damaged Master Boot Record? Otherwise it may try to boot from the hard drive. After a few minutes, you'll see a prompt to press the R key to start the Recovery Console. When Recovery Console starts, it will prompt you to enter a number corresponding to the Windows XP installation that you need to repair.
In most cases, you'll enter "1" which will be the only choice. Enter your Administrator password. If you don't enter the correct password, you cannot continue. At the Recovery Console command prompt, type fixmbr and then verify that you want to proceed. Do you have experience with a damaged master boot record? Post your comments below Ask Your Computer or Internet Question. What's New in Windows 11? Here's the Fix Are You Sick and Tired of Windows?
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Thanks so much How do you do the master boot record make more than 4 partitions? Comments: you may use HTML tags for style. K7MH , Mar 27, I replaced a disk in a Dell desk puter several years ago. I just put them in the drive and they loaded ok. K8ERV , Mar 27, The Computer needs to have the boot order set in the system bios to boot from the CD drive first to boot from the windows xp installation disk.
THEN you should be able to reinstall xp, reparition the hard disk or run the recovery console. AD2U , Mar 28, N0IU , Mar 28, Show Ignored Content.
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