From: AscoltA@dsd.trw.com (AscoltA) Subject: Re: Help! with my hard drive boot record Date: Thu, 29 Oct 1992 22:50:45 GMT
In article <1992Oct28.032030.29853@tc.cornell.edu> chris@theory.TC.Cornell.EDU (Chris Allen) writes:
>From: chris@theory.TC.Cornell.EDU (Chris Allen)
>Subject: Help! with my hard drive boot record
>Date: Wed, 28 Oct 1992 03:20:30 GMT
>Hi, folks. I have a problem that I'm hoping someone can help me
>solve. Basically, I've corrupted my boot record and put in a program that
>I don't want there anymore. (Specifically, I installed Linux's shoelace a
>while back, which overwrote the record before I got around to saving it.)
>I've tried copying one from other sources, like other people's hard drives,
>but they don't seem to work on my system.
> I've tried running disk recovery programs on it, but they don't
>detect that it's not a good boot record, so they don't bother fixing it.
>I've even tried writing junk to the boot record, like a string of 0's, a
>string of 255's, and a string of random numbers (like binary data files).
>Each of these attempts is still considered valid boot records, so nothing
>bothers to change it. I've also tried re-fdisk'ing the drive, reformating,
>re-sys'ing, etc. but nothing seems to help.
> I'd appreciate it if someone can tell me exactly what numbers go in
>the first 446 bytes so I can put them there myself. I'm not familiar with
>the low-level contents of the record, but I can put values there. I have a
>200 meg Conner IDE drive running on a 33MHz 386 (AMI BIOS), if any of this
>is important.
> I don't get to read Usenet very often, so I'd appreciate it if you
>could e-mail me any advice, info, or questions about the problem, because I
>probably won't be able to read posts here for a while. My address is
>chris@tc.cornell.edu.
> Thanks a bunch!
>
> Chris Allen
>--
>Chris Allen
Have you tried Norton Utilities? There is a utility for making a boot
track - can't remember which one. I have successfully fixed boot tracks
with it before.
Denise
Ascolta