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Boot Sector Repair

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Suck_My_Deck

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Okay so here is the problem my friend is having:

he was swapping hard drives, and installed a WD 80GB Special Edition to replace his WD 60GB. During the swap something happened and some how the boot sector got damaged. Partition magic returns this error "Error #102: Boot Sector Information Not Correct". So the question is, what the hell is the problem? And how can this be repaired?

It will allow Windows XP to install, but when it gets to booting for the first time is gives some error and doesnt work.
 
Did he swap out the boot drive?

A possible solution to this would be to boot off the Windows XP disk, press 'R' after it's done installing all the drivers to get into Recovery Console.

Enter the Windows XP install, and type:

Code: 
fixboot C: (or whatever the boot partition is)

fixmbr C: (for good measure, it repairs the master boot record)

See if that helps.
 
Not sure if this would help, but:

you can use the undocumented "/mbr" switch on fdisk to replace the entire master boot record on your HD, you just need a 9x boot disk.
 
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