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| Need help:error in boot sector I have a 1G drive(on Pentium 233 I use to play old games) I was trying to use, were I could have windows98 on a 3G and windows95 on the 1G. When I installed and tried to boot both disks with the 3G as the master and the 1G as the slave I heard clicking sounds from the 1G and the system would not boot. I checked the 3G and it was fine, but the 1G according to Ranish partition manager has a invalid boot sector. I am not able to format. I tried the use the fdisk /mbr command, but it didn't work. Is there a way to either fix the error, or isolated it so I can use the drive? How do you set things up were I can use either O/S? Thank you for your time.      |
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| Re: Need help:error in boot sector That clicking noise is the read head slamming ... your drive is all done. DLDickson wrote: > > I have a 1G drive(on Pentium 233 I use to play old games) I was trying to > use, were I could have windows98 on a 3G and windows95 on the 1G. When I > installed and tried to boot both disks with the 3G as the master and the 1G > as the slave I heard clicking sounds from the 1G and the system would not > boot. I checked the 3G and it was fine, but the 1G according to Ranish > partition manager has a invalid boot sector. > > I am not able to format. I tried the use the fdisk /mbr command, but it > didn't work. > > Is there a way to either fix the error, or isolated it so I can use the > drive? > > How do you set things up were I can use either O/S? > > Thank you for your time. |
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| Re: Need help:error in boot sector That clicking noise is the read head slamming ... your drive is all done. DLDickson wrote: > > I have a 1G drive(on Pentium 233 I use to play old games) I was trying to > use, were I could have windows98 on a 3G and windows95 on the 1G. When I > installed and tried to boot both disks with the 3G as the master and the 1G > as the slave I heard clicking sounds from the 1G and the system would not > boot. I checked the 3G and it was fine, but the 1G according to Ranish > partition manager has a invalid boot sector. > > I am not able to format. I tried the use the fdisk /mbr command, but it > didn't work. > > Is there a way to either fix the error, or isolated it so I can use the > drive? > > How do you set things up were I can use either O/S? > > Thank you for your time. |
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