I've seen this happen to (3) SATA drives on systems running Windows XP Professional.
On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 4:05 PM, Mike Gill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My head espload… This is happening AGAIN. An RMA'd drive is in the computer > now. It seems very unlikely to be a problem with the machine that is > corrupting the MBR in a way that can't be fixed. But two drives failing like > this? What could be going on here?! > > > > Original Message: > > > > I have this one Seagate ATA drive that for the second time now has a corrupt > MBR. The evidence is booting the computer leads to a "disk read error, press > control alt del to restart." I can boot to a BartPE disc and see the > contents of the drive OK, and a chkdsk shows no errors. I am currently > running the SeaTools extended test on the drive, which I did the last time > this happened, as well as running SpinRite at level 4 & 5. I have done the > fixboot and fixmbr from the recovery console as well. Nothing I do will > repair the damaged MBR. Fixmbr says the boot record is non-standard, but it > cannot repair it even though it says it did. I can run it over and over > again and it always says non-standard and that it was repaired. The only way > I was able to use this drive again from the first time this happened was to > repartition and reinstall the OS. > > > > I'm most likely going to RMA the drive, but I'm really curious as to what is > going on and why fixmbr can't fix it while repartitioning can. Is there any > other trick I'm missing? > > > > -- > Mike Gill > > > > -- ME2 ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
