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Even with a protein rich diet combined with regular high. Invalid partition table. These messages are definitely not fun, especially if you are not familiar with computers. Most people would automatically assume their computers are dead However, thats not true. Being in IT myself, these errors are actually preferably to other types of Windows errors. Why Well, its actually fairly easy to fix the Master Boot Record in XP and Vista. All you have to do is load up the Recovery Console and run a simple command. All of your data, applications, settings, etc are still intact on the drive and once the MBR is fixed, the computer will load normally. Fix MBR in Windows XPSo how can you repair your damaged MBR Here are the steps to follow 1. First, restart your computer with the Windows XP setup disk in the CD drive. If you dont have your original disk, borrow one or download an ISO image from a torrent site. When prompted, boot from the CD drive by pressing any key. If Windows loads automatically, you will first have to enter the BIOS setup and change the order of the boot devices to start with the CD drive. Once the setup loads, you will see the option to press R to repair a Windows installation. Once the Recovery Console loads up, you will have to type in a number that corresponds to your Windows installation. This is normally just 1. Press Enter and then type in the Administrator password. Now at the prompt, type in fixmbr. Your damaged MBR will now be replaced with a new master boot record and your computer should now be able to boot properly. Note that you may also want to run the fixboot command to repair the boot sector with a new one. Also, make sure you only use these commands on a system with one operating system installed. If you have more than one operating system installed, fixmbr and fixboot could mess up everything. Fix MBR in Vista. In Vista, the procedure to fix the master boot record is a bit different. You have to start up Vista in the Recovery Environment and then run the bootrec command. Heres how. 1. First, load up the Windows Vista disc in your drive and press any key to boot from the disc. Choose the language, time, currency, etc and click Next. Now click on Repair Your Computer. Choose the operating system to repair and click Next. When the System Recovery Options dialog comes up, choose the Command Prompt. Now type bootrec. Enter. This will rebuild the boot configuration data and hopefully fix your problem. You can also run the command with switches to fix just the master boot record fixmbr, the boot sector fixboot, or rebuild the entire BCD rebuildbcd. If you are still having trouble with loading Windows, post a comment and Ill see if I can helpWindows Tools, Help Guides. If you prefer the look of apps that use a Dark Theme, Windows comes with one thats almost complete but isnt 1. If youre okay living that close to the edge, you can enable it now. You can either download the registry entry and merge it, or make the edit yourself. Before you start, review this guide if youre unfamiliar with editing the Windows registry. To make the edit yourself Open the registry editor and navigate to HKEYLOCALMACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftWindowsCurrent. VersionThemes. Create a new key named Personalize. Within the key, create a new DWORD 3. Apps. Use. Light. Theme with a value of 0. Navigate to HKEYCURRENTUSERSOFTWAREMicrosoftWindowsCurrent. VersionThemes. If it doesnt already exist, create a new key named Personalize. Create the same DWORD 3. Apps. Use. Light. Theme with a value of 0. Sign out of Windows and sign back in. To switch back to the light theme, delete the registry entries and sign out and back in. If youd like to enable this for multiple users, sign in as that user and make the same change under HKCU read more about the registry root keys. Want to customize Windows 1. 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