Webb Posted November 3, 2015 Share Posted November 3, 2015 I have this computer. When I turned it on this morning I got the message "Invalid or damaged Bootable partition". I have "One Key Recovery" that will rewrite the HD to factory settings but that seems a little drastic. I also have a Norton Ghost image that is a few months old. There is no way to test the integrity of the image before using it. My research says I may have a damaged MBR and if I can restore it that will fix the problem. The only bootable medium I have is a Linux Mint 17 DVD. Can I repair the MBR with it? How? Could it be some other problem? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lewmur Posted November 3, 2015 Share Posted November 3, 2015 I have this computer. When I turned it on this morning I got the message "Invalid or damaged Bootable partition". I have " I have this computer. When I turned it on this morning I got the message "Invalid or damaged Bootable partition". I have "One Key Recovery" that will rewrite the HD to factory settings but that seems a little drastic. I also have a Norton Ghost image that is a few months old. There is no way to test the integrity of the image before using it. My research says I may have a damaged MBR and if I can restore it that will fix the problem. The only bootable medium I have is a Linux Mint 17 DVD. Can I repair the MBR with it? How? Could it be some other problem? " that will rewrite the HD to factory settings but that seems a little drastic. I also have a Norton Ghost image that is a few months old. There is no way to test the integrity of the image before using it. My research says I may have a damaged MBR and if I can restore it that will fix the problem. The only bootable medium I have is a Linux Mint 17 DVD. Can I repair the MBR with it? How? Could it be some other problem? The first thing I'd do is boot the Mint DVD and run gparted to check the HDD. You should see at least three partitions. The boot partition, the recovery partition and the main partition. If you don't see those partitions or the partitions have a yellow flag, then the HDD is probably bad. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Webb Posted November 3, 2015 Author Share Posted November 3, 2015 I can see all of the partitions in gparted and all of the files in the file manager. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Webb Posted November 3, 2015 Author Share Posted November 3, 2015 SOLVED. I left a MP3 player plugged in to a USB port. I had previously made some changes to the BIOS/UEFI to prevent the machine booting only from HD and it was looking to the USB for boot information. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest LilBambi Posted November 8, 2015 Share Posted November 8, 2015 Glad you figured it out. The number of times that happened in the old days with floppies is legendary. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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