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    Averatec 3200 BSDO on startup

    Discussion in 'Other Manufacturers' started by kaisdavis, May 24, 2005.

  1. kaisdavis

    kaisdavis Newbie

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    I've had my averatec for about 9 months now and its always worked perfectly. Today I was using it at my desk and went to do some errands. I came back to find it out of power. I plugged it in and started it up. It cycled through the windows loading screen and then BSODs and restarts.

    I only get a glimpse of the BSOD but I believe it says Unmountable Boot Sector.

    Anyone experienced this before or is it a case for tech support?

    -kai
     
    kaisdavis, May 24, 2005
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  2. jedisolo

    jedisolo Notebook Deity

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    Looks like you'll have to reformat your HD and install Windows from scratch. It's a software issue not a hard ware issue.
    Basically it's saying your boot sector is corrupt. Before you do anything drastic check to see if your optical drive(cd/dvd writer) is empty. When a computer boots up it'll use the cd rom drive as the first boot device and if you have a cd in it, and it's blank it'll try and boot from that and if it can't boot from that it'll probable say unmountable boot sector. More than likely your boot sector on drive c: is corrupt and you'll have to reinstall your operating system.
    -andrew
     
    jedisolo, May 26, 2005
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