NDD to the rescue once more.

I scanned for viruses - none found.  I then ran Norton and it rebuilt the MBR and the partition tables.  All better!

Thanks for all the help.  I wish they were all that easy.

P.S.
He has Norton Utilities installed but never created a rescue disk.  There is now one with his computer!!

Regards,

Frank Stadmeyer

> ----------
> From:         Brian Coe[SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent:         Tuesday, June 01, 1999 9:03 PM
> To:   [log in to unmask]
> Subject:      Re: [PCBUILD] No Boot Sector on Hard Drive
>
> The best thing I can think of is NDD /Rebuild (Norton Utilities) that will
> find any partitions on the drive and will also fix the boot record. if the
> disk has gone physically bad then there are no solutions to resolve this
> save for data recovery by a company such as drive savers or such. My moms
> system lost the boot record last week for some unknown reason. turned it
> off in the AM and that eve it wouldn't boot. NDD saves the day again!
>
> Brian Coe
> CM productions
>
> At 12:32 PM 6/1/99 , you wrote:
> >Folks,
> >The subject says it all.  I have a friend who has the problem.  He can't
> >boot the computer and that's the message he gets.  Happened suddenly with no
> >apparent warning signs.  He's going to pack it all up and bring it to me
> >tomorrow.  I'll have more information then.  All I know now is that it is a
> >Gateway something.  He does not appear to have a Win95 boot disk and he's
> >looking for any rescue CD's that came with the system.
> >
> >Any suggestions?  Or is it too early?
> >
> >Thanks
> >Frank Stadmeyer
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