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Houndog777 · 05-31-2007, 08:29 AM

Hi,
Please try pressing ctrl & F11 during boot.

I do not think it's hardware problems; the PBR is the partition boot record.
That has been corrupted, so windows doesn't have a starting place on the disk. You may not be able to recover your files.
It's further compplicated by Dell having a partition on the drive for restoring the system.
If ctrl & F11 does not work, then we cannot access that either.

05-31-2007, 08:29 AM	#5 (permalink)
Houndog777 Registered User Join Date: May 2007 Location: Scotland, UK Posts: 2,683 OS: XPpro sp3 My System	Re: Loading PBR for descriptor 2...failed Hi, Please try pressing ctrl & F11 during boot. I do not think it's hardware problems; the PBR is the partition boot record. That has been corrupted, so windows doesn't have a starting place on the disk. You may not be able to recover your files. It's further compplicated by Dell having a partition on the drive for restoring the system. If ctrl & F11 does not work, then we cannot access that either.