Disk Boot Failure

[vanlee]

Yesterday I came home from work and I started my computer. It was making a series of beeps. After looking in my PC Repair book I determined it was a hard drive problem. I disconnected my secondaryy drive and tried again. Now, I got no beeps, but the main drive said disk boot failure. I inserted the windows setup disks and got the system to boot to windows from the CD. I ran the Windows Repair, but the system still will not boot from the hard drive. I tried running Norton Disk Doctor, but that did not detect any problems with the boot sector either. I'm not sure what to try next??

 

[edfair]

You could try fdisk /mbr to repair the boot sector. But if you have a disk overlay installed this will make the problem worse.

Ed Fair
Give the wrong symptoms, get the wrong solutions.

 

[vanlee]

Where can I find fdisk?

 

[techkiwi]

Start the computer in DOS, using a startup disk. FDISK is a DOS command, and FDISK /MBR is an undocumented but useful command which will rebuild the Master Boot Record (sometimes).

 

[GOLDENCHILD]

FDISK is not a tool to be toyed with.
But in FDISK your partition must be set as ACTIVE or else you can not boot on it....
Also the drive you wish to boot on must contain the "system files".

Regards