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First post, by Nicht Sehr Gut

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Has anyone ever come across a hard disk (partition) that crashed, then wasn't recognized as valid by the BIOS upon the reboot. If so, did you get the same results as I did when I ran dianostics on it: Nothing?

I scanned, performed virus-checks, re-installed the MBR, everything. Nothing helped until I re-formatted. Worked fine after that. Odd.

Reply 1 of 4, by DosFreak

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How did you fix the MBR?
Were the boot files NTLDR,NTDETECT.COM (NT) or MSDOS.SYS,IO.SYS,COMMAND.COM (Dos) on the primary partition?

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Reply 4 of 4, by Nicht Sehr Gut

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DosFreak wrote:

How did you fix the MBR?

Well since it was a dual-boot, I tried a re-installing the MBR for both. 1st , Win98; then XP (I figured XP would be safer to perform as XP "knows" 98, but 98 does not "know" XP). Neither worked.
One thing I forgot, Partition Magic (floppy version) detected that the XP partition was "improperly dismounted". Unfortunately I had no tools that could correct that.

Were the boot files NTLDR,NTDETECT.COM (NT) or MSDOS.SYS,IO.SYS,COMMAND.COM (Dos) on the primary partition?

Actually, they're all there since I'm using a Dual-Boot.