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December 11th, 2006, 03:35 PM
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[XP] Dell recovery problem - Bad PBR signature
I have a dimension 8400 with a bad drive. I have tried the ctrl-F11 restore but when it completes windows still won't boot (blue screen). I did a check disk and it has bad sectors preventing windows from booting.
Since I didn't create recovery disks when I initially received the dell (oops), I have pulled the ghost image from the hidden partition of the original and bought a new HDD. I have followed the directions below to restore the image to the new drive but when I try to boot with it I receive:
Loading PBR signature for descriptor 0...done.
Bad PBR signature
Any tips on how to correct this? I tried with a single partition on the new drive and with the Dell Utility partition as the first one and recovered to a second partition to try to emulate the original drive.
Here is the guide I used to pull the ghost image.
http://www.goodells.net/dellrestore/recover.htm
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