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

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Since our last correspondence, I contacted Hp support Chat and they advised
me not to use the command but to contact Norton, my anti-virus provider, and
get their advise, which is really what you said in the first place. So i
won't use the command and will do more work with Norton.

Thanks for the help. With your advice and HP's, I am pretty certain I should
be very careful about using the fixmbr command. Have a great night.
Ron

"John John" wrote:

In that case it should work without damaging the partition table.

John

ronrobjoe wrote:

Thanks John, the research I did said this virus would be fixed or prevented
by the fixmbr command so I will try it.
Ron

"John John" wrote:


It always says that when you run fixmbr, unless you have DDO (which is
highly unlikely in this day and age) or other programs that hook into
the mbr (like GoBack) you can use the command and it won't cause you to
lose the partitions.

That being said, there are some mbr virus that cannot or should not be
repaired by using the fixmbr command, I have not researched the
particular virus that you have, it is up to you to do your homework and
assure yourself that using fixmbr to remove the virus will not cause
further damages.

John

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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