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Old 07-03-2009, 12:44 PM   #23 (permalink)
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Re: "Memory could not be read" in various games

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Originally Posted by unknown_entity View Post
Hey again guys, sorry for a delayed reply, I've been somewhat busy with other issues.

So, I've figured out that the boot sector of my OS Hard Drive is corrupted. The HD itself is fine, the partitions are as they should and all the data on it should be intact, but it fails to boot. My BIOS settings are also as they should be.

So, is there a way to repair a broken boot sector? I tried windows system recovery console's fixboot command but it didn't do the trick. I guess I could get a data recovery program somewhere and copy all the data from the HD and format it, but that sounds a bit too extreme. Could the HD be simply dead hardware wise, or is this just a soft side issue? Any ideas are warmly welcome :)

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Go back to the Recovery Console and type: chkdsk /f /r

This will scan the disk for errors. The switches, /f and /r, will instruct the system to fix and repair any bad sectors it finds; if they are fix/repairable.

Then chances are, you will need to use the bootfix command again, as your boot sector may still be damaged.

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