Master Boot Record Issue...

[Tordek]

I own a 80 GB Hitachi SATA HD. And i was having some problems with my OS, so i decided to format a reinstal everything....

The problem is that i chose to format using a Hitachi Utility called Hitachi Drive Fitness. Within the floppy bootable application there where some options for test on the HD and there was this thing. Erase the MBR. I decided to give it a shot and erased the MBR (Master Boot Record). And then formatted the whole drive within the same app.

Then i rebooted with the windows CD in my CD -Rom and entered the windows setup. Loaded the sata drivers, pressed F8 at the eula, and when it came time to choose for a hard drive to install the OS, two options showed up.

- MBR at disk. (with a partition created)
- My physical HD.

Then out of complete stupidity, decided to erase the partition created at the MBR. Not sure why i did it... At the time i thought that just reformatting the drive would fix any problems anyway.

Now when the Boot Order is set to anything but the hard drive alone. The computer wont boot at all, just post and then stay at a black screen with a small horizantal bar flickering....

What is my problem? What can i do?

I still have no idea of what i actually did? or how the MBR works? or was is it for, for that matter?

 

[Ice Czar]

MBR = Master Boot Record

The Master Boot Record (MBR) will be created when you create the first partition on the hard disk. It is very important data structure on the disk. The Master Boot Record contains the Partition Table for the disk and a small amount of executable code for the boot start. The location is always the first sector on the disk.

How to repair the boot sector

 

[Tordek]

thanks... Problem solved.