RE: FixMBR says I have on-standard or invalid boot record

You are right - my pc is an HP. Have you run into this problem before?

"sgopus" wrote:

it depends on what brand of compuer you have, since you didn't specify, we
can't answer.
ie if HP they tend to use their own mbr to access the repair partition.

"ronrobjoe" wrote:

I was concerned about getting very bad virus that is going around Europe
that writes (Storm Virus?( and hides itself on the Master Boot Record. So I
use the Recovery Cosole to enter the command fixmbr and stopped because I got
this message:

This computer appears to have a non-standard or invalid boot record.
Fixmbr may damage your partition tables if you proceed.
This could cause all the partitions on the current hard disk to become
inaccesible .
If you are not having problems accessing your drive, do not continue
Are you sure you want to write a new mbr?

I answer no. I am concerned that I may already have the virus because I have
a router and I notice all lot of activity, send receive lights flashing on it
when I am doing nothing on the internet, especially later in the evening.

Can anyone tell me what the recovery console meant in its message about my
hard disk mbr being non-standard or invalid and being unable to access it if
I processed with the fixmbr.
.

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