I ran parted magic on my friends laptop, only to look which broadcom wireless model he had. While restarting, he plugged in his flash drive, and afterwards it got the blue screen of death. The blue screen only pops up for less than a second, so it cannot be read. Can plugging the flash drive in during bootup cause the MBR to be corrupted? Is there a possibility that the Parted Magic OS could have caused the problem? In other words, if it was not shut down properly, could the Parted Magic have caused a problem?
I've been checking out the Hirens boot disk, and the disk that Roger called coolcd.iso, and I found the MBR Save/Restore tool, but I couldn't figure out how to make it work, and I couldn't find any documentation online. I did find a users manual for the Active Partition Recovery. We ran a utility called: MBRWorks, and it is showing me the partition table. Can anyone suggest which tool I should be running to restore this disk operational, and hopefully a documentation page, since I will not be able to figure out how to run the program without documentation, and or user manual. I did find this website that explained the MBR: http://www.geocities.com/thestarman3/asm/mbr/Win2kmbr.htm Is this good info? I also have other websites that I have archived about the windows method of mbr. Is understanding the XP style MBR the key to the situation, and how can I tell if the boot record is even the problem. Thanks Paul _________________________________________________________________ Insert movie times and more without leaving Hotmail®. http://windowslive.com/Tutorial/Hotmail/QuickAdd?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_HM_Tutorial_QuickAdd1_052009
