master boot record

Users of Windows 11 might encounter a frustrating issue known as "Boot failure detected." This condition can arise due to various factors, including hardware malfunctions, corrupted system files, or improper boot configurations. Such a failure can prevent your computer from starting up properly...

A friend of mine lost the Master Boot Record off his Dell Inspiron laptop, can it be recovered & if so how, its his business comp & has important stuff on it ?

So, after 3 days of frustration to get the Tux for TF2, I very stupidly uninstalled Ubuntu incorrectly, the result was no longer being able to boot Windows 7. I receive a BSOD after the Starting Windows screen. After some googling, it appeared my Master Boot Record was corrupt. I followed all...

Hi! I am working on a customers computer, Windows XP home. It was hit with a nasty virus. I have removed the virus with AV software booted from a CD. It removed many many viruses. Now, when I try to boot, it doesn't even make it to the Windows XP screen. It just keeps rebooting, and asking...

Source: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2387752,00.asp As you might notice, in the full article title, Microsoft also says to "Re-install Windows", which was Microsoft's original recommendation. Reading the full article, you will note that, nowhere, does it say you have to re-install...

I have a Dell Studio 15 with Core i7 740 processor, 4 GB RAM and 500g HDD. Windows 7 Home Premium Factory Installed I have installed Linux Mint 10 last month and everything was so fine. I have deleted the Linux Partition by mistake and my default boot was using GRUB. So i got a GRUB...

My computer suddenly, and for the first time since i got win7(x64) in nov 09, BSoD'd on me. My bios wont recognize the drive (OCZ vertex SSD) anymore, and when i loaded win7 repair disk and it wont recognize it either. I then loaded win7 onto another disk and put the problem disk on as a...

A new piece of malware is capable of killing the Windows boot process, according to Microsoft. Win32/Yonsole.A is a backdoor Trojan, a term that defines a piece of malicious code designed to compromise computers and subsequently connect to a server controlled by the attacker, receive and execute...

Hello. I did a clean instal of Windows 7 using an upgrade CD. I was using XP Home SP3 . I now find that my C drive has a 9Mb unalloctated partition. Properties show, in the volume tab that this partition style reads "Master Boot Record". Is this normal , would you expect this to be there...

ok so heres the problem i was running windows xp and decided i wanted to get 7 but on my other hard drive, so i went through the normal steps and i now have xp on one hard drive and 7 on the other but if i try to boot my windows 7 hard drive as master then it tells me my ntldr is missing but if...

Hello, I heard that Windows 7 runs pretty good on systems a few years old, so I thought I'd give it a try for the heck of it on mine. I'd like to dual boot with XP, with XP still being the primary OS I use. At some point, whether it's a couple weeks later if I end up not liking it, or in March...

As an alert to people who may want to install Beta 2 on Dell laptops or computers with a emergency restore partition: Dell laptops have a hidden partition on the hard drive to restore the original operating system that came with the computer. To activate the emergency restore, you hit CTRL-F11...