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| Tech Ranger 2002-09-02, 6:29 pm |
| Excuse me, guys, but we are having a discussion over at the A+ Forum which is relevant to M$. I have read countless descriptions of the Fixboot command. Everthing I read says that Fixboot writes a new boot sector. Can anyone offer a definitive, authoritative, icontrovertible explanation as to what exactly is meant by this? | |
| Zaraspook 2002-09-02, 7:51 pm |
| Fixboot - writes a new partition boot sector to the system partition. A partition boot sector is a portion of a hard disk partition that contains information about the disk's file system and a short machine language program that loads the Windows operating system.
Damaged MBRs and Boot Sectors | |
| Tech Ranger 2002-09-03, 5:57 am |
| Does fixboot replace any boot files like ntldr? Also, the machine language program to which you refer, is that the MBR? If so, what about fixmbr? | |
| ruscorp 2002-09-03, 10:28 am |
| I've seen the threads in the A+ forum.
I am often confused by them both too.
I have used fixmbr on several occasions though because I am always screwing up my mbr with LILO. | |
| Zaraspook 2002-09-03, 12:33 pm |
| quote:
Originally posted by Tech Ranger
Does fixboot replace any boot files like ntldr? Also, the machine language program to which you refer, is that the MBR? If so, what about fixmbr?
The first sector on every hard disk. The MBR contains a small amount of executable code and the partition table, which stores information about the disk's primary and extended partitions. For more info follow the links.
Recovery Console commands
If Ntldr is damaged or missing, or if the boot sector is corrupted, you can resolve either problem....
Disk Concepts and Troubleshooting
Have fun! | |
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