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  • UnderdogDJLSW
    To Fear is Not Logical...
    • Feb 17, 2008
    • 4895
    #1

    No Boot Sector on Internal Hard Drive Message

    Well, I'm temporarily using my laptop from work as my Dell's hardrive has decided to go "blah." I know I'm letting myself in for a few "use a Mac" comments, etc but I wanted to know if anyone else has encountered this and what they tried. I'm going to try and restore the drive. I've no real worries as I always have a portable hard drive back-up and figure this might end in getting a new machine. I'm just not sure that even if I get it running again, the 5 year old HDD won't just flake out again.
    It's all good!
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    • mitchedwards
      Mego Preservation Society
      • May 2, 2003
      • 11781
      #2
      If you can boot off a CD rom of flash drive, and get to the dos prompt you can this go to the C drive and type in fdisk /mbr This will redo our master boot record. Its worth a shot
      Originally posted by UnderdogDJLSW
      Well, I'm temporarily using my laptop from work as my Dell's hardrive has decided to go "blah." I know I'm letting myself in for a few "use a Mac" comments, etc but I wanted to know if anyone else has encountered this and what they tried. I'm going to try and restore the drive. I've no real worries as I always have a portable hard drive back-up and figure this might end in getting a new machine. I'm just not sure that even if I get it running again, the 5 year old HDD won't just flake out again.


      Think B.A. Where did you hide the Megos?

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        • ctc
          Fear the monkeybat!
          • Aug 16, 2001
          • 11183
          #3
          Hmmmm....

          That's weird. Doesn't it mean your computer has lobotomized itself?

          I find when anything weird happens a full reformat of the hard drive works wonders.

          Don C.

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            • Toy Talk
              Old and out of touch
              • Aug 7, 2009
              • 948
              #4
              Originally posted by mitchedwards
              If you can boot off a CD rom of flash drive, and get to the dos prompt you can this go to the C drive and type in fdisk /mbr This will redo our master boot record. Its worth a shot
              That is pretty much the fix. In fact, just running fdisk and following the prompts will fix the problem (most likely). However, the question is what caused the boot record failure to begin with. Normally this type of error means the HDD is going bad, so it may be time to replace.
              "Procrastination is the art of planning for tomorrow."

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                • UnderdogDJLSW
                  To Fear is Not Logical...
                  • Feb 17, 2008
                  • 4895
                  #5
                  Thanks all. I'll work on it over the weekend and let you know. I personally think it is time to replace, but trying not to incur another expense right now.
                  It's all good!

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