Boot sector question

Eddie Haskell · 02-08-2005, 08:36 PM

Is it a seperate entity or is it a small part of the partition? the reason I ask is this HD will not work as a master but it seems to work fine as a slave.

Eddie Haskell · 02-09-2005, 12:11 AM

Maybe I phrased that wrong, is the boot sector a different "physical" drive than the rest of the HD or is it just a section of data on the HD called a boot sector

Yeti · 02-09-2005, 04:18 PM

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Maybe I phrased that wrong, is the boot sector a different "physical" drive than the rest of the HD or is it just a section of data on the HD called a boot sector

It is the first sector of a partition. It contains such things as the master file table which has information on all the files and folders on that partition.

Eddie Haskell · 02-09-2005, 04:58 PM

So is it possible the "first sector" of a partition (HDD) can be bad without the whole HDD being bad? I suppose anything is possible!

Yeti · 02-09-2005, 05:06 PM

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So is it possible the "first sector" of a partition (HDD) can be bad without the whole HDD being bad? I suppose anything is possible!

Yep, and if there's a problem there is a solution

:
http://www.pcwash.com/hard-drive-rep...repair-xp.html

02-08-2005, 08:36 PM	#1 (permalink)
Eddie Haskell Bronze Member Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 90	Boot sector question Is it a seperate entity or is it a small part of the partition? the reason I ask is this HD will not work as a master but it seems to work fine as a slave. __________________ "Never Initiate...Retaliate!" Bobby Allison

02-09-2005, 12:11 AM	#2 (permalink)
Eddie Haskell Bronze Member Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 90	Maybe I phrased that wrong, is the boot sector a different "physical" drive than the rest of the HD or is it just a section of data on the HD called a boot sector __________________ "Never Initiate...Retaliate!" Bobby Allison

02-09-2005, 04:58 PM	#4 (permalink)
Eddie Haskell Bronze Member Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 90	So is it possible the "first sector" of a partition (HDD) can be bad without the whole HDD being bad? I suppose anything is possible! __________________ "Never Initiate...Retaliate!" Bobby Allison

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