Barry Watzman <WatzmanNOSPAM@neo.rr.com> wrote in news:h23jcr$o4k$1
@news.eternal-september.org:

> I think that is incorrect; I think that a clean install does NOT
> necessarily create a new MBR.
>
> You have some options when you do an install; you can use an existing
> partition (with either a "full" format or a "quick" format) or you can
> delete and/or create new partitions. But NONE of those actions replaces
> the MBR, which is a portion of the drive itself and not of any one
> particular partition (each partition has it's own boot record, but those
> are separate from the MASTER boot record).

But what if you start from scratch on a brand new, sealed HD, as I did? How
could the MBR be corrupted on that?


jaybee