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Faulty MBR, bad luck or sign of dying drive?
My trusty old B130 laptop would not boot from the hard drive. I could view
the drive partitions and contents after booting to an Acronis rescue disc. I then booted to the Windows XP install disk and ran FIXMBR from the recovery console. Now it boots from the hard drive and everything seems ok. I wonder if this was just bad luck or if it's a sign of an aging drive that's about to give me more trouble. I do regular backups to an external drive and new drives are cheap enough these days, so I'm not terribly worried. Just curious. |
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Faulty MBR, bad luck or sign of dying drive?
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"Martin Walker" wrote: My trusty old B130 laptop would not boot from the hard drive. I could view the drive partitions and contents after booting to an Acronis rescue disc. I then booted to the Windows XP install disk and ran FIXMBR from the recovery console. Now it boots from the hard drive and everything seems ok. I wonder if this was just bad luck or if it's a sign of an aging drive that's about to give me more trouble. I do regular backups to an external drive and new drives are cheap enough these days, so I'm not terribly worried. Just curious. try running a repair from Windows. How to run Chkdsk from My Computer or from Windows Explorer 1. Double-click My Computer, and then right-click the hard disk that you want to check. 2. Click Properties, and then click Tools. 3. Under Error-checking, click Check Now. A dialog box that shows the Check disk options is displayed, 4. Use one of the following procedures: - To run Chkdsk in read-only mode, click Start. - To repair errors without scanning the volume for bad sectors, select the Automatically fix file system errors check box, and then click Start. - To repair errors, locate bad sectors, and recover readable information, select the Scan for and attempt recovery of bad sectors check box, and then click Start. 5. Note If one or more of the files on the hard disk are open, you will receive the following message: The disk check could not be performed because the disk check utility needs exclusive access to some Windows files on the disk. These files can be accessed by restarting Windows. Do you want to schedule the disk check to occur the next time you restart the computer? Click Yes to schedule the disk check, and then restart your computer to start the disk check. |
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Faulty MBR, bad luck or sign of dying drive?
"Martin Walker" wrote in message ... My trusty old B130 laptop would not boot from the hard drive. I could view the drive partitions and contents after booting to an Acronis rescue disc. I then booted to the Windows XP install disk and ran FIXMBR from the recovery console. Now it boots from the hard drive and everything seems ok. I wonder if this was just bad luck or if it's a sign of an aging drive that's about to give me more trouble. I do regular backups to an external drive and new drives are cheap enough these days, so I'm not terribly worried. Just curious. Go to the disk manufacturer's website and download their test utility. It will probably be a CD image. Burn the CD and boot with it. The full test may take hours but not as long as having to recover if it fails completely. If it tells you the drive is failing, replace it. Eric |
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Faulty MBR, bad luck or sign of dying drive?
Ok, thanks for the advice. WD's Data Lifeguard diagnostics, Dell
diagnostics, and checkdisk all found no problem. Looks like I'll just carry on and backup regularly. |
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