Corrupted Boot Record Restore?

[PackRatBob]

I have a problem where my C: boot record has become corrupted somehow. Unfortunately I made several disaster recovery sets with it in this condition (without my knowing it) and discarded the earlier disaster recovery sets. Apparently the CD-R/RW made in this process of creating the CD-R/RW also stores the boot record whether it is corrupted or not, and then proceeds to duplicate the bad boot info on any restore.

 

 

 

My question is: How do I restore the correct data (which I do have) in the absence of a good boot record? Do I have to reinstall Windows 98SE and its applications all over again, or, I hope, is there a simpler way? BTW, neither Scandisk or Norton Utilities is able to repair the problem tho they both try.

 

 

 

I have Retrospect 5.6 Desktop with an Exabyte VXA-1 Tape drive and full backups.

 

 

 

Thanks in advance for any and all help.

[Mayoff]

Actually, I don't believe Retrospect backs up the boot record on a PC. If you believe the boot record is corrupted, I would recommend a reformat of the hard drive. Some PC makers require special bios information be stored on an invisible partition on the disk. Only the original PC OEM CD can reinstall that BIOS info (or you can sometimes get it from the PC maker's web site)

 

 

 

Retrospect only does a file by file backup of data stored via Windows Explorer.

[PackRatBob]

Thank you Mayoff,

 

I guess that my (unvoiced) question was whether Retrospect backups (not the disaster recoveries which I had been using previously) would only replace the files.

 

 

 

I guess the procedure would then be to repartition and reformat and then reinstall Windows; then reinstall Retrospect and use it to restore the files only. Is that your suggestion? It sounds workable to me.

[lv2ski]

Yes. That is correct!