What is the MBR? At the end of the ROM BIOS bootstrap routine, the BIOS reads and executes the first physical sector of the first floppy or hard disk on the system. This first sector of the hard disk is called the master boot record (or sometimes the partition table or master boot block). There is a small program at the beginning of this sector of the hard disk. The partition information, or partition table, is stored at the end of this sector. This program uses the partition information to determine which partition is bootable (usually the first primary DOS partition) and attempts to boot from it. ---- du har en trasig disk eller virus.. lyckas du få igång datorn så bränn ut allt du vill spara på skivor och kör sedan reparationsprogrammen du fick med windows och hoppas på de bästa
No point in mentioning those bats, I thought. The poor bastard will see them soon enough.