Re: chkdsk without recovery console

FIXMBR is a utility you can run from that prompt. I'm not sure what will happen, though, since you fail to see it.
FDisk, from a dos floppy (or bootable dos CD) boot would probably allow the command
Fdisk /MBR
There are utilities like BootItNg that have a chance too. http://bootitng.com
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Mark L. Ferguson
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"JimC" <JimC@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:EC4D8B41-A9F2-4B04-AD5F-8D36464D22C3@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Hi,
I'm looking for a solution to the usual unmountable boot volume problem.

The recovery console does not see a hard drive and so running chkdsk is not
available. Is there another way to run this utility without the recovery
console? I've run a hard drive test which shows a single bad sector which
must be in the boot sector. Seems a shame to ditch the HD for a singlel bad
sector.

Any ideas really appreciated - as I've run out of them !
Cheers
Jim

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