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12-16-2002, 08:57 AM
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inaccessible boot sector
I have a PII IBM Thinkpad. Once it reaches the windows 2000 screen, it gives me the blue screen of death with a Inaccessible boot sector error. My first reaction was repair the OS. However, I receive error 5: cannot boot from CD-ROM when I try. I did a bios check on it and the system board and it passed. I also tried reseating it and no luck. Any ideas?
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12-16-2002, 10:30 AM
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You will have to reformat the hard drive and repartition the hard drive to correctly have a new MBR.
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12-16-2002, 10:57 AM
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You might want to get a bootdisk with FDISK on it and run fdisk /mbr to fix the master boot record. Worth a shot.
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12-18-2002, 03:42 PM
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Does W2K have a max partition size like NT did? And if so, what size is your hard drive?
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12-18-2002, 04:00 PM
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Can you hear the drive spin up?
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12-19-2002, 11:21 AM
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Issue resolved
Finally was able to boot from CD and just re-partition. Apparently the booting from the CD ROM was an intermittent issue. I did some research on my bios, and found that there has been firmware update that has a fix for this. Still not sure what happened to my hard disk, but it was unreachable with the tools I have. Thanks to everyone who posted.
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