HDD Problems??

[chooka]

Im having trouble with my brothers computer, he called my up stating that his computer wont boot up and comes up with this error message;

Couldnt open rive. multi (0) disk (0) Rdisk (0) partition 1


????

If anyone has any idea please let me know

I think the HDD is a Seagate 80G 7200rpm ATA 100

Cheers

 

[Ste]

I am not sure however, if you can get into the recovery console, you can type fixmbr.

Im not sure though. So don't anyone yell at me if its wrong. At least im trying....

 

[macdude425]

Try fixboot AND fixmbr at the recovery console.

 

[Ste]

Try fixboot AND fixmbr at the recovery console.

Oh thank god I wasn't wrong.

 

[chooka]

Ok ill let you know how i went

 

[chooka]

ok cant get to recovery console, asked him to boot using cd but the error comes up straight after post. ?

 

[Ste]

well, I think u need to change the boot priority to CD-rom first then it may work.

 

[chooka]

ok cant get to recovery console, asked him to boot using cd but the error comes up straight after post?

 

[chooka]

reseting BIOS now, could it be a virus in the master boot record?

 

[Ste]

Could be. you could download the ultimate boot disk here

http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/

and use its Virus scanners to scan HD. Its bootable. Youll need another computer to burn that .iso file to a disc though.