>>>Anybody know how I might fix a "Disk Read Error" while I boot up my machine?
>>>I have a machine that will not boot up.
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>>>thanks bunches
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>>Go to another machine with a similar OS and create a boot disk. Once you boot the bad PC, you can access utilities like FDISK.EXE and SYS.COM from the C:\Windows\Command folder.
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>Mark,
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>I also believe you can issue SYS
/MBR to reinit the Master Boot Record.
It's FDISK /MBR, not SYS...
FDISK controls the partition tables, which includes the Master Boot Record (or MBR) that serves as the hard disk's pointer to the bootstrap loader for the operating system on a logical volume; SYS writes the actual OS-specific executables for starting the OS and loading the CLI. Every physical disk has a partition table and MBR regardless of the OS and type(s) of partition formats used to define logical volumes.
