The Hard Drive Mechanic - Boot Sector Repair

Boot Sector Not Found

Boot sector not found - The Hard Drive Mechanic. Hard disk data recovery tool to fix Windows XP and Windows 2000. Windows repair software.

Donot be fooled by the word *boot* sector, it has less to dowithbooting your PC and more to do with a with your partition. Acorrupt or missing Boot Sector could be a serious problem.Withoutit the partition can not be accessed and your PC would be dead.

Technically, There is an incorrect value in thePartition Boot Record (PBR) on the hard disk. Any computer with amis-match in the number of read/write heads reported by the PartitionBoot Record and the system BIOS will likely report a 'Boot Sector Not Found.'

Possible(but not all) symptoms include:

Invalid media type reading drive
Abort,Retry, Fail?
File systemis displayed as "RAW"
Windows mayask if you want to format the drive
File names contain "weird" characters
"Sector not found" messages

This problem constitutes a logical crash that may have been caused by viruses, random mis-writes, power sags and surges, malware, improper computer shutdown, new hard drive installation or any number ofother anomalies. If you are experiencing errors similar to the ones below, you can easily repair the problem using The Hard Drive Mechanic.