If you have a drive with exactly the same size and partitions you could copy the mbr sector (sector 0) of a good one and write it to the bad one.
If there is no physical error with the drive that should work. Doesn't tell you what caused it though. Hth René From: Mike Gill [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 15, 2008 10:06 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Harddrive question - MBR hosed part II - Again?! 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 *** The information in this e-mail is confidential and intended solely for the individual or entity to whom it is addressed. If you have received this e-mail in error please notify the sender by return e-mail delete this e-mail and refrain from any disclosure or action based on the information. *** ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
