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    What does the MBR look like on your HP pavillion?

    Discussion in 'HP' started by bilsch, May 7, 2008.

  1. bilsch

    bilsch Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hello. I have a Pavillion dv2000 with Vista. Vista was broken so I did some tinkering and made a mistake and lost the boot code in the MBR. Before I lost the code I was looking at it with a disk editor and I noticed it didn't have any of the usual 'boot failure' messages embedded in it. The only message was the text for the F11 prompt. I am guessing that when this HP/Vista system stopped booting (before I totally broke it) it changed the MBR code so the only way forward would be to hit F11 and do a recovery from the recovery partition. Maybe not - but that's my first guess.

    MY QUESTION: can somebody in this group look at the MBR in their Vista/Pavillion system and see if it has the F11 prompt embedded in it?

    My next question will be: will copy your boot sector and send it to me? But I will be quite happy just to get an answer to the first question.

    Thanks in advance. Bill S.
     
    bilsch, May 7, 2008
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  2. f15hp

    f15hp Notebook Consultant

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    Yeah I it must be embeded to the code since I deleted the Recovery Partition a long time ago and it still shows that up when HP logo comes up when ever you turned on the computer.
     
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