hd problem

[Keith Antoine]

On Mon, 18 Aug 2003 02:17 am, Leon A. Goldstein wrote:
> Keith Antoine wrote inter alia:
> > Looking at the drive in dos it sees c: only and If I access the R and
> > fixmbr it says its not a standard mbr. All we did was change the
> > motherboard, could this wipe the mbr and scaramble it? Is there a way to
> > fix without losing all the data? It looks to me as if there is no way out
> > but to reformat and re partition etc.
>
> Sounds like another partition overlay problem (Maxblast, EZDrive,
> etc.).  I believe these programs interact with the BIOS, so a different
> BIOS will mess up how it reads the MBR.
>
> --
> Leon A. Goldstein
>
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Now I see the light, as the saying goes. Yes that would account for the 
problem in that the new baord has these 'new fangled dual bios thigo's'.
I did try the old board back in but it also was corrupted by this time. Ok 
lesson well learnt. Mind you have run XP after a MB change before, with R
in the install section, this was the first glitch. Lesson backup to something 
else first.

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Keith Antoine (GANDALF) aka 'SKIPPY'
18 Arkana St, The Gap, Queensland 4061, Australia:: PH:61733002161
Practising Geriatric, Retired Electronics Engineer, Knowall, Brain in storage