Re: HELP:my mediabyte 's like dynamite and bites me by dying

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From: Wizard
Date: Sat, 04 Apr 1998 00:00

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D.F. Maat wrote:

> Here's the deal:
> a 850meg HD (Quantum) has crashed,
> scandisk says that the mediabyte is corrupt
> Fdisk says that my hd is write protected
> Format(dos) says it can't write my boot sector
> Norton disk doctor says that i fucked up.
>
> however, bios detects the drive correct.
>
> Question: Can I
>
> - replace the corrupted mediabyte by a new one
> with DEBUG or something, and if so, what is the value of the byte.
> - Are there utils to fix this problem and if so, where do i find these
> - I once saw someone use the /MBR flag with FORMAT to format
> the master boot record. win95 FORMAT doesn't support this.
> which FORMAT does, and will this work?
> - Will a Lowlevel format work(not available in my BIOS)
> - is norton diskdoctor right after all?
>
> PLEASE help me
> thanks
> Dirk@Maat.demon.nl

  Boot to a known virus free floppy (win95 boot disk)
and type "fdisk/mbr" (no quotes) this will re-write the master boot record
and should fix your problem. It can't do any harm. This sounds like a
virus may have gotten you.

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Subject: Re: HELP:my mediabyte 's like dynamite and bites me by dying
Date: 1998/04/04
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