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How to Diagnose and Fix Boot Errors Using POST

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How can you fix boot errors when nothing gets displayed to your computer screen? There’s no details, there’s no error message, there’s no secret code or is there? It looks like you have a black screen in Windows and nothing is happening. I have written many articles on troubleshooting a black screen on startup but [...]

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How to repair the boot sector by fixing the master boot record (MBR) in Windows XP

May 26, 2010

To repair the boot sector by fixing the master boot record, there is no doubt, you will have to be technically minded to proceed. You can sometimes fix the boot sector of a hard drive and your computer will magically start as normal. Your computer may continually restart, sometimes load the Windows logo screen, or [...]

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