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short story:
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i am trying to restore MBR on a Toshiba 60GB hard drive with fdisk/mbr, it returns saying “Error writing fixed disk. The master boot code has NOT been updated.”
is there a way i can set the read-only attribute off so i can modify the MBR? further more, what does the message mean?
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long story:
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i was using Norton Ghost ghosting a partition from one complete different system to another
it went alright without a problem until it finishes thru 100% and said it’d like a reboot
after a reboot the problem happens saying things like giving me 3 choices:
(1) go into dos…
(2) use Ghost… to revert…
(3) returning to windows
it has been a week, so i was making out the choices out of my very rough memory.
later someone on internet told me to use DBAN to wipe out everything in my HDD, which i did and the util did a marvellous job too.
now since the hdd is all zeroed, so i tried using fdisk to create new partitions. after fdisk’ed it said it needed a reboot in order to take effect (before DBAN’ed, fdisk used to say it had problem writing to disk)
from first i was happy to see it was working, then even after rebooting the computer still wasn’t set with the partition table that i had set previously
so now i am figuring if i can use fdisk/mbr to restore the MBR section it would be great
i have tried several utilties which all of them said they had problem writing to disk. i wonder what can i do to help? these are the utilities i have tried
DBAN
FDISK
MBRTOOL
MHDD
SPFDISK (special FDISK)
please help