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How can a BSOD ruin an mbr???
Armando:
My mbr is damaged again. I know how to fix it (using the Super Grub disk or other boot disks...), but why does that happen? How can a BSOD ruin it?
OGroeger:
Hmm, maybe a hardware defect (harddisk or controller)? The hardware wreakes havoc and the os crashes afterwards?
Carol Haynes:
Dying block on your hard disk just where you don't want it ?
f0dder:
BSOD means you're having problems of one form or another. It could be a hardware failure, and those can be tricky and doing all sorts of stuff. Or it could be a driver running amok and trashing whatever filesystem memory structures that might be flushed back to disk...
I've had really nasty crap happening because of ATI drivers.
Carol Haynes:
Thanks f0dder a light has finally dawned - that could well have accounted for the data corruption I regularly experienced with Catalyst drivers !!! What a really stupid 'bug' ! Luckily I don't use Catalyst drivers any more and don't really plan to again in the future.
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