I tried to turn my old computer on one day and it said that the master boot record was lost. I was using windows 98 and I don't have any recovery disks or any disks for the re-installing win. 98. What should I do??
2006-10-08 19:46:30 · 4 answers · asked by Ace 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Other - Computers
It means your harddrive is hosed. At this point, you'll need pretty sophisticated disk recovery tools to get your data back. You could try geek squad at best buy, but it will cost you around a $100 or more.
2006-10-08 19:50:43 · answer #1 · answered by Jake 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It means you may or may not have a virus, or maybe your hard drive is just going bad. If you take it to Best Buy they might be able recover your master boot record, but I wouldn't count on it.
If the computer is that old and you don't have anything for it, it just might be time to put that pig out of it's misery or out of your misery. My guess is it's not going to have enough memory, speed or hard drive space (if the drive is good) to put Windows XP or any other OS on it, so basically what you have there is an electronic boat anchor. I would say donate it, but I don't know who would even use something that old.
2006-10-08 20:03:53 · answer #2 · answered by JSalakar 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It means either the Hard disk has certain problems or your FAT in Hard disk is corrupted by cretain virus.
In short your data is lost
If the data in your PC is important then go for Recovery of the data wither by using Open Source Tools like TestDisk http://freshmeat.net/projects/testdisk/ or going for any experienced consultant
If the data in your hard disk is not important then just delete the partition and reinstall from the start.
Bye for now
CSJakharia
2006-10-08 19:55:12 · answer #3 · answered by csplrj 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You're on the 'net so find a master boot record for win98 & your comp's make & model. There's one here someplace....just a minute...
2006-10-08 19:57:41 · answer #4 · answered by thrag 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋