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    Help on inspiron 6400

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by winemaker01, Oct 14, 2007.

  1. winemaker01

    winemaker01 Newbie

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    I have a Inspiron 6400 running windows xp Home. It is on a 60GB HDD.

    I have accidently deleted the first sector in the HDD. This is sector 0 which is the MBR.

    Does anyone else have the same laptop and can you send me the first 256 bytes from sector 0.

    I thought i was deleting a different sector and now I cannot reboot. Please help.
     
    winemaker01, Oct 14, 2007
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  2. PhoenixFx

    PhoenixFx Notebook Virtuoso

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    You can repair/rewrite the MBR by booting in to the recovery console (boot with XP CD > Press R > Enter admin pass) then type fixmbr or fixboot.
     
    PhoenixFx, Oct 14, 2007
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