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By Sisenor on Jan 07, 2008

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my boot sector keeps failing
ithought it was a virus but it cant be detected
the thing also is resistant to formatting i.e.
i have to resort to quick format to be able to setup

it even froze the bios for sometime

i suspect its not all hardware as the technician easily returned
the access to the bios bacj again

Comments:

Jan 14, 2008

- cannot delete catroot2 of win32
tried the renaming and the attributing to no avail

some of the sugggested solutions are way too long

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posted on Jan 07, 2008

headstrong

Rank: Guru
Rating: 86%, 329 votes

you need to do a low level format, goggle low level format there are some free you can download and use, this will clear the drive completely (all data will be lost). this is different than a regular format.

then try it

IF it fails again, the drive is going bad.

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