I did a similar recovery for a friend about 6-8 months ago. In his case MBR went corrupt, and I suspect it was a virus that did it (after I booted the system, I cleaned out quite a few of those).
The way I got it to work was to use some utility on Hiren's Boot CD to apply standard MBR. This should change the message to something like "System not found" or something along those lines. After that I used recovery CD to launch fixmbr or fixboot (or both) to actually apply windows record. That worked. This, obviously, comes with all standard disclaimers. If data valuable, and you can read the disk in another machine, or off some boot CD, and are able to copy it off, you may want to do it before much experimentation to avoid loosing the data for good. Lenny On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 2:00 PM, Mike Gill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have this one Seagate ATA drive that for the second time now has a > corrupt MBR. The evidence is booting the computer leads to a "disk read > error, press control alt del to restart." I can boot to a BartPE disc and > see the contents of the drive OK, and a chkdsk shows no errors. I am > currently running the SeaTools extended test on the drive, which I did the > last time this happened, as well as running SpinRite at level 4 & 5. I have > done the fixboot and fixmbr from the recovery console as well. Nothing I do > will repair the damaged MBR. Fixmbr says the boot record is non-standard, > but it cannot repair it even though it says it did. I can run it over and > over again and it always says non-standard and that it was repaired. The > only way I was able to use this drive again from the first time this > happened was to repartition and reinstall the OS. > > > > I'm most likely going to RMA the drive, but I'm really curious as to what > is going on and why fixmbr can't fix it while repartitioning can. Is there > any other trick I'm missing? > > > > -- > Mike Gill > > > > ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm> ~
