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O.P. Boot sector of disk read error
I was just scanning my computer for viruses, and I noticed that AVG came up with a reading error on the boot sector of my disk. Okay, so I don't know what's wrong with that, so I try running ScanDisk, and it freezes up my entire computer. So I try to de-frag it, and it also freezes on initializing tables.

I'm guessing it has to do with the boot section of my disk? Does anyone know how to recify this please?

I'm on Windows 98SE.


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11-11-2005 09:39 PM
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RE: Boot sector of disk read error
i'm not sure, but can't u do a fixmbr or something like it?

And i found this which might be helpful http://www.ptdd.com/fixboot.htm

On second thought, this one might be better at it:
http://www.diydatarecovery.com/default.htm

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O.P. RE: Boot sector of disk read error
Okay DragonX, "If you cannot access the FAT16/NTFS partition and the partition is marked with "X", right click the partition and choose Fixboot. Partition Table Doctor will automatically check and repair the boot sector of the partition." How do I get to the partitions?
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RE: Boot sector of disk read error
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Okay DragonX, "If you cannot access the FAT16/NTFS partition and the partition is marked with "X", right click the partition and choose Fixboot. Partition Table Doctor will automatically check and repair the boot sector of the partition." How do I get to the partitions?


Gee, maybe by downloading Partition Table Doctor?
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O.P. RE: Boot sector of disk read error
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Okay DragonX, "If you cannot access the FAT16/NTFS partition and the partition is marked with "X", right click the partition and choose Fixboot. Partition Table Doctor will automatically check and repair the boot sector of the partition." How do I get to the partitions?


Gee, maybe by downloading Partition Table Doctor?


I would if Fixboot was included in the demo version :-/
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RE: Boot sector of disk read error
"buy it"
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O.P. RE: Boot sector of disk read error
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"buy it"


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11-12-2005 12:01 AM
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RE: Boot sector of disk read error
U can always "buy" it ;)

To be honest i never had that problem, so i'm not exactly sure how to fix it so i just googled it, read on it and gave ya a tool that could help. I searched for more s/w but i couldn't find any free one - sry.
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