Re: Repair the Boot Sector
Re: Repair the Boot Sector
If XP won't start it may be due to a damaged boot sector or a missing or corrupt ntldr or ntdetect.com files.
To replace damaged ntldr and ntdetect.com you can copy fresh files from the XP CD using the COPY command. Boot with the XP CD and enter the Recovery Console (as above). At the Command Prompt type the following (where "X" is your CD-Rom drive letter) allowing the files to overwrite the old files
COPY X:\i386\NTLDR C:
COPY X:\i386\NTDETECT.COM C:
To repair a damaged Boot Sector at the command prompt type FIXBOOT and press Enter. Then answer "Y"
Re: Repair the Boot Sector
if you have windows 98 bootable cd then you can do it with that.just boot from cd ,with dos console there scan hardisk for badsector
Re: Repair the Boot Sector
try DD Regenerator ,it is unique software program for regeneration of physically damaged hard disk drives. It does not hide bad sectors, it really restores them!
If you suspect that your hard
drive contains bad sectors, you may experience difficulties when you try to copy data from your disk, or notice that your operating system is unstable or discover that you are unable to boot to Windows altogether. But there is no need to panic and start paying lots of money for a business recovery service, or throw out your hard drive thinking that your important information is lost for good.
Take advantage of HDD Regenerator - the unique disk recovery program that rescue computers by regenerating hard disk drives from bad sectors.