"master boot record not found"

25 Mar 2005 5:37 PM

Andy

when i start up my windows 2000 NTFS machine i'm geting a message that my
mbr is not found. i think its corrupt. can anyone tell me how to fix this?

25 Mar 2005 7:03 PM

William W. Plummer

Andy wrote:

> when i start up my windows 2000 NTFS machine i'm geting a message that my
> mbr is not found. i think its corrupt. can anyone tell me how to fix this?

Boot from your original Win2k CD and select the "Repair" option. I
believe you can ask the repair console to rewrite the MBR use "/?" for
more info.

25 Mar 2005 7:18 PM

ByTor

In article <3C81F199-9DE2-41D0-8297-69B76385B***@microsoft.com>,
A***@discussions.microsoft.com, =?Utf-8?B?QW5keQ==?= says...

> when i start up my windows 2000 NTFS machine i'm geting a message that my
> mbr is not found. i think its corrupt. can anyone tell me how to fix this?
>

Do what William suggests, If you didn't see it, Boot to the Win2k CD
choose the (R) repair console.......the command to fix should be
"fixmbr" without the quotes.

26 Mar 2005 12:19 AM

nesredep egrob

On Fri, 25 Mar 2005 14:18:07 -0500, ByTor <By***@snowdog.com> wrote:

>In article <3C81F199-9DE2-41D0-8297-69B76385B***@microsoft.com>,
>A***@discussions.microsoft.com, =?Utf-8?B?QW5keQ==?= says...
>
>> when i start up my windows 2000 NTFS machine i'm geting a message that my
>> mbr is not found. i think its corrupt. can anyone tell me how to fix this?
>>
>
>Do what William suggests, If you didn't see it, Boot to the Win2k CD
>choose the (R) repair console.......the command to fix should be
>"fixmbr" without the quotes.

I think you will find it is FDISK /MBR

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26 Mar 2005 5:15 AM

Galen

In news:ria941tb7ivgnlqee9pbg69q9ieohh58fd@4ax.com,

nesredep egrob <Long. -31,48.21 Lat. 115,47.40> had this to say:

My reply is at the bottom of your sent message:

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> On Fri, 25 Mar 2005 14:18:07 -0500, ByTor <By***@snowdog.com> wrote:
>
>> In article <3C81F199-9DE2-41D0-8297-69B76385B***@microsoft.com>,
>> A***@discussions.microsoft.com, =?Utf-8?B?QW5keQ==?= says...
>>
>>> when i start up my windows 2000 NTFS machine i'm geting a message
>>> that my mbr is not found. i think its corrupt. can anyone tell me
>>> how to fix this?
>>>
>>
>> Do what William suggests, If you didn't see it, Boot to the Win2k CD
>> choose the (R) repair console.......the command to fix should be
>> "fixmbr" without the quotes.
>
> I think you will find it is FDISK /MBR
>
> B.Pedersen Latitude -31,48.21 Longitude115,47.40 Time=GMT+8.00
> If you are curious look here http://www.mapquest.com/maps/latlong.adp

No, it's fixmbr \<switches> according to Microsoft...

Description of the Windows 2000 Recovery Console:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/229716/EN-US/

Galen

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