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by temah

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I was running Disk defragmenting program in the Windows 2000 workstation, after a while around 30 min. the screen went black when tried to power it off and on won't boot and a cursor was blinking at the left top corner instead.What went wrong????????????

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by ann777

Power management kicked in? Or the defrag encountered a bad spot on the hdd?

Boot to Recovery Console.... and run a chkdsk /r.

Or boot to Safe mode/Last Known Good and do a scandisk.

Then see if you can boot normally.

by donmars

You maybe did not disable screen saver or other TSRs before starting the defrag now your MBR is corrupted. When you try to boot and all you see is just blank screen without any messages. It means the piece of code at the beginning of the MBR could not be executed properly. That’s why even error messages could not be displayed. However, if you boot from boot disk, you will see FAT partition, files on it and you are able to perform standard operations like file copy, program execution... Ithappens because only part of the MBR has been damaged which does not allow the system to boot properly. However, the partition table is safe. You can access your drive when you boot off another drive. In Windows NT / 2000 / XP, you can boot from startup floppy disks or CD-ROM, choose repair option during setup, and run Recovery Console. When you are logged on, you can run FIXMBR command to fix MBR.

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