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Topic "Boot sector" was discussed 3,246 times on 451 sites in last 3 months
Started 5 days, 16 hours ago (2009-12-03 01:16:00)
by Don Esch
Old hard drive failed--320gig--replaced with 500 gig, reinstalled xp home edition, will not boot up. Message comes back, failed boot sector, booting from CD, no enumeration. Comes up okay, but each time turning comp back on, same problem. Any ideas?
Started 6 days, 17 hours ago (2009-12-02 00:05:00)
by exf5003
I have an inspiron 9300 with 100 GB HDD. Recently I had a huge malware or even virus that slowed down my computer tremendously. I took it to geeksquad and they where able to remove it, but it still ran a lot slower than I ever remembered. I decided to completely erase my hard drive with the program Wipe Drive and install in a newer Windows XP that my brother had. Now that wipe drive ...
My old laptop, a dell inspiron 630m has problem now I tried reinstalling the os and now it says boot sector not found on hard drive I am unable to boot up from xp/vista/7 cds. I thought the hard disk had a problem and so I got a new one but it still shows the same message. Any ideas? Thanks
Started 2 weeks ago (2009-11-23 21:40:00)
by JumpingJackson
I have an intel 80gb SSD (gen2) and 1 tb wd black edition hdd. When i installed Windows 7 i made the SSD the system drive, but Windows 7 put the boot sector on the HDD, so i cant boot unless they are both plugged in. How to i move the boot sector over to the SSD?
Started 2 weeks, 1 day ago (2009-11-22 22:59:00)
by JGHimself
Hi, I have a E6400 and cant install XP. After booting from CD, and loading all the files for windows setup, it gives a bluescreen error suggesting there is a virus. My most likely explanation is that the boot sector is write protected. However, after browsing all of the tabs in BIOS (version A17), ive not found any option to disable this. Can anyone point me to the location of this option?
Started 2 weeks, 5 days ago (2009-11-18 18:21:00)
by neku
avira antivirus has found BOO/Sinowal.d boot sector virus and can't remove it. The machine (a laptop) has been having problems with connecting to broadband via its usb ports whether a 3g dongle or a usb lead to a voyager 2091 adsl modem.
Started 3 weeks ago (2009-11-17 00:00:00)
by Tristan-117
Hi all, Haven't made a post in a long time and I'm surprised my account is still active. Here's the verdict; my laptop came shipped with an OEM Windows Vista installation. I wanted to dual-boot it with Windows XP but needed XP on the C: partition (plus the issue with older version of windows should be installed before a new version is installed) forced me to re-format, install XP SP3, ...
Started 3 weeks, 2 days ago (2009-11-15 04:07:00)
by A Guy
Boot repair - no chance to dangerous boot sector viruses under DOS! There is a new tool available to detect and remove boot sector viruses under DOS. All AntiVir users can download the search and repair tool, which contains a signature-VDF as well as a user interface (ANTIVIR.EXE). [Only registered and activated users can see links. ] A Guy
Started 3 weeks, 5 days ago (2009-11-12 10:21:00)
by It's Howdy Doody
...but the data is all still there, and I'm hoping to save all my setups, authorisations etc. On a PC I'd simply make the drive bootable, from a cd which takes seconds, and saves the setup as is. There MUST be a way to do something similar on my Mac. It's 10.4.6. This is my second post on this - so I apologise, but I had but one response last time, which was to use the install and ...
Started 1 day, 12 hours ago (2009-12-07 04:47:00)
by Vincent Hu
Hi, Base on my experience, if you want to use a partition larger than 2TB, you have to use dynamic MBR or dynamic GPT. By the way, I have seen some issue related to the block size of the partition. The solution is to ensure the LUNS are created with a block size of 512bytes - some people had been created with a block size of 4096 bytes - NTFS & clustering were working fine, but NO ...
