[riffraff9]

Any advice on the following greatfully received.

My daughters boyfriends PC is running Windows 2000 Pro. The hard drive is a Western Digital WD800. It is on a single channel IDE cable and is in the primary IDE socket on the MOBO. There have been no changes to the hardware configeration recently. The jumper is set to Master.

The PC goes through the POST but when it gets halfway through the loading of the Windows 2000 screen just before it kicks into Windows proper it goes to a blue screen with erorr code 0X0000007B (0x81847DF) (0x0000032) (0x00000000) (0x00000000). The checks suggest this is a Master Boot Record problem and coupled with the PC's behaviour I think I will have to deal with it if it was.

So far I have taken the hard drive out and put it in mine and run an online anti virus scan at Trend Micro and Symantec that came back negative. I have run scandisk and downloaded the Wetern Digital diagnostics tool. No errors reported. My PC can read the disk fine as a slave.

I have tried to run FDISK /MBR but when I hit the return the floopy boot disk springs into life and then........nothing . Am I doing this right?

If FDISK /MDR does not work, what other options are there for reparing the MBR?

Thanks in anticipation

 

[Maverick83]

Any advice on the following greatfully received.

My daughters boyfriends PC is running Windows 2000 Pro. The hard drive is a Western Digital WD800. It is on a single channel IDE cable and is in the primary IDE socket on the MOBO. There have been no changes to the hardware configeration recently. The jumper is set to Master.

The PC goes through the POST but when it gets halfway through the loading of the Windows 2000 screen just before it kicks into Windows proper it goes to a blue screen with erorr code 0X0000007B (0x81847DF) (0x0000032) (0x00000000) (0x00000000). The checks suggest this is a Master Boot Record problem and coupled with the PC's behaviour I think I will have to deal with it if it was.

So far I have taken the hard drive out and put it in mine and run an online anti virus scan at Trend Micro and Symantec that came back negative. I have run scandisk and downloaded the Wetern Digital diagnostics tool. No errors reported. My PC can read the disk fine as a slave.

I have tried to run FDISK /MBR but when I hit the return the floopy boot disk springs into life and then........nothing . Am I doing this right?

If FDISK /MDR does not work, what other options are there for reparing the MBR?

Thanks in anticipation

Damn, I know how to do this with the XP disc, but not 2000. Okay, what you're going to want to do to is plop in the Win2000 disc and let it boot. Try to get to a repair command prompt. When you get there, type in the help command for a list of commands. Included in the list should be something like a fixMBR command. Try that, and see what it does. I've done it a couple of times on XP, and it doesn't seem to screw up my partition table. And without any other configuration, it booted straight into windows when it wouldn't before. But I only have experience with XP.
If you don't have the drive partitioned, there really is no risk. I don't know if you have to configure the mbr for booting into win2000 after you repair it.

 

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