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[ady]

Bought a cheap lappy that I knew had a boot fault.

 

Like normal the OS is held on the drive, I tried creating a new boot sector but the bloody thing insist's on just telling me it's attempting a self-fix....I don't want it to arghhhhh!!!!.................and in any case after an hour it can't do it anyway!

 

Tried F12 and altered all I know so-as to allow me to take control of it, but with no success (no other keys will respond).

 

A) Does anyone have a boot sector for Win8 I can put on a stick 

 

B) Has anyone had this problem? If so how did you fix it?

 

 

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I can easily wipe it I know, but I got it from a friend who has some treasured photo's on there that i'd love to give back.

 

Any help is appreciated.

[NickYerPesos]

Why dont you just wipe the entire partition and reinstall windows.. Why not try 7... haha, ten times better than that 8 shit anywho.. lol

[altharic]

He has photos on there he'd like to keep are you booting from a full windows 8 disk?

[ady]

Why dont you just wipe the entire partition and reinstall windows.. Why not try 7... haha, ten times better than that 8 shit anywho.. lol

 

As Alth said, I want to keep some Pic's.

 

He has photos on there he'd like to keep are you booting from a full windows 8 disk?

 

No mate, it's on a ghost partition, I was just hoping to obtain a new boot sector, can't see a download anywhere on the net.

[Matty.N]

File bellow is from my recovery partition, Dell Inspiron 3731 - Windows 8 x64.

 

As for the issue itself i've only had bootsect errors when loading from USB/DVD & not during normal boot.

[Matty.N]

To add on to this, the issue could lie with UEFI, so if you have to install another partion to gain access to the files you'll need to use a copy of Windows 7 Enterprise or Ultimate x64 as they are the only variation which supports UEFI which is the standard with Windows 8.