Boot sector formatting and repair under Windows 2000 and XP
Under Windows 2000 and XP can format and repair the boot sector of your Windows Partition using the Windows installation CD:
- Insert the Windows CD into the drive and restart your PC.
- You boot from the CD. The boot sequence in BIOS Boot menu set. In the use anweisund your computer explains how to enter the Boot menu. In General, is one of the keys [Esc], [F2], [F8], [F9], [F10], [F11], [F12], [Tab] or press [Alt] after Powering on the Computer.
- Press any key to boot from CD. You navigate by Pressing the key [R] to "repair menu" and open by [K] the "recovery console".
- In the console, first enter a "fixboot c:" (it is installed on your operating system on a Partition other than c, replace the "c" with the correct drive letter). This command overwrites the old boot sector to Start the operating system.
- Then, type "fixmbr c:" (the drive letter if necessary replace). This command replaces the Master Boot Record contains the partition table of your system.
- The replacement of the sectors can take up to 15 minutes. You can then restart your PC and as usual booted from the hard disk.
Boot sector formatting and repair under Windows Vista, 7, and 8
To write to the boot sector, differ, despite the same approach, some of the commands in Windows Vista, Windows 7 and Windows 8:
- Insert the Windows CD or the recovery CD into the drive and restart your PC.
- You boot from the CD. The boot sequence in BIOS Boot menu set. In the use anweisund your computer explains how to access the Boot menu. In General, is one of the keys [Esc], [F2], [F8], [F9], [F10], [F11], [F12], [Tab] or press [Alt] after Powering on the Computer.
- Press any key to boot from CD. Navigate to the "Troubleshooting" and open the "advanced options" in the "command prompt".
- It is the console, in which you can enter first "bootrec.exe /fixboot" will open. This command overwrites the old boot sector to Start the operating system.
- Then, enter "bootrec.exe /fixmbr". This command replaces the Master Boot Record contains the partition table of the system.
- The replacement of the sectors can take up to 15 minutes. You can then restart your PC and again booted from the hard disk.
In the case of Boot problems it formatting is not always necessary the boot sector and repair. In this practice tip will give you the causes and solutions for error is declared. Using the Ultimate Boot CD you can boot sector, even without a Windows CD formatting and repair.
