Boot Sector Not Found
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Donot be fooled by the word *boot*
sector, it has less to dowithbooting your PC and more to do with a with your partition. Acorrupt or
missing Boot Sector could be a serious problem.Withoutit the partition can not be accessed and your PC
would be dead.
Technically, There is an incorrect value in thePartition Boot
Record (PBR) on the hard disk. Any computer with amis-match in the number of read/write heads reported by the
PartitionBoot Record and the system BIOS will likely report a 'Boot Sector Not Found.'
Possible(but not all) symptoms include:
- Invalidmedia type
reading drive
- Abort,Retry, Fail?
- File systemis displayed as "RAW"
- Windows mayask if you want to format the
drive
- File names contain "weird"
characters
- "Sector notfound" messages
This problem
constitutes a logical crash that may have been caused by viruses, randommis-writes, powersags and
surges, malware, improper computer shutdown, new hard driveinstallation or any number ofother
anomalies. If you are experiencing errors similar to the ones below, you can easily repair the
problem using The Hard Drive
Mechanic.
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