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beeple   04-29-2009 at 05:46:12 PM

OUr desktop was nearly full when we had a crash that resulted in a "master boot record error". After trying to recover it, resulting wipig out everything on teh drive, we finally gave up and bought a new hard drive. We installed it last night and it worked fine. I was installing McAffee and when I restarted I got a "master boot record error" on the restart. We do have an external hard drive. I am wondering if a virus could have gotten from the first drive to teh second hardrive by plugging in the external drive?? Or is the problem something else?

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GhislainG   04-30-2009 at 03:41:23 AM
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If you remove the external hard drive, does the error go away?

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sub mesa   04-30-2009 at 03:43:49 AM
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Check the boot order if you're actually booting form the right harddrive. And yes this could be a viruses, but such viruses are are.

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doomsdaydave11   04-30-2009 at 07:31:33 AM
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Unplug the external hard drive and get into the Windows recovery console. The simple "fixmbr" command generally fixes this problem (I've had it often, as I triple-boot).

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