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What a great thread... no wonder it has become a sticky!!!
Okay... My laptop refused to boot into windows (XP-Pro) the other day... It's a Toshiba 80Gb 16Mbcache model MK8026GAX.
After much experimenting, seems like sector0 is bad.
I have tried a few tools, not the least of which was spinpoint... said it was going to take over 2300hrs to complete whatever it was doing; and various other prog's under the disk tools part of Hiren's Boot CD.
Just wondering whether or not anyone has had any experience with sector0 stuff, and what I might try.
Hiren's CD btw is available here... http://homepage.ntlworld.com/hiren.thanki/bootcd.html
Thanks
Okay... My laptop refused to boot into windows (XP-Pro) the other day... It's a Toshiba 80Gb 16Mbcache model MK8026GAX.
After much experimenting, seems like sector0 is bad.
I have tried a few tools, not the least of which was spinpoint... said it was going to take over 2300hrs to complete whatever it was doing; and various other prog's under the disk tools part of Hiren's Boot CD.
Just wondering whether or not anyone has had any experience with sector0 stuff, and what I might try.
Hiren's CD btw is available here... http://homepage.ntlworld.com/hiren.thanki/bootcd.html
Thanks