Need advice with disk partitions; (should D: be NTFS?)

whs said:

I think you lost all of us. There are no 4 boot records - just one. You are chasing a red herring.

There are multiple boot records (each partition also has one). The question is what his scanner is reporting.

I'll refer you back to this image.

Now according to a post I received from the McAfee community at:

Code:

https://community.mcafee.com/thread/62028

As for boot records : it's checking the MBR. If it finds an extra record there you should investigate the reason. Run this program and it will tell you what it finds on the MBR - I've downloaded it and tested it. On mine it found only one record.

http://www.majorgeeks.com/files/details/mbrcheck.html

According to this guy the boot records returned in this scan are of the MBR. [not sure if i believe this or not]

I didn't really want to be bothered downloading this thing I'd never heard of, so perhaps you clever folk can tell me if I can check my boot records without downloading things.

I just want to find out if I have the right number of boot records or not.

Disk management shot as of today (top) - 4 'boot records'
Disk management shot as of 05/12/12 (bottom) - 3 'boot records'

Hope this helps
MID

Anybody please?

I feel like we've nearly made some progress with this stupid boot record reading.

MID

There is obviously no difference.

I'm not sure why you'd be so concerned about something so inconsequential when you could instead be focusing your energy on getting a perfect Clean Reinstall - Factory OEM Windows 7 with our help since you're here and it's a speciality here.

The difference is that you would go from having the worst possible install of Win7 with worst possible AV, to the best possible install of Win7 with everything that works best based on our having helped here with tens of thousands of installs.

Hi Greg.

I'm not trying to be difficult here, I was just keen to find out what had changed in relation to boot records.
From the reply I got on the McAfee forums it didn't sound normal to have 4

As for why I haven't done the clean install; as I think I said I may well be getting a new laptop sometime soon. Also, I don't have any external hard drive available at the moment, although I'm hoping to buy one ASAP

I did just take a look at the linked clean install page however.

Just to clarify; I don't have any disks that came with my laptop or a windows 7 OS disk. I can still do a clean install if I get blank disks and follow the steps on your forum post?

Thanks,
MID

Awesome!

I've just got a 500GB hard drive to back up my personal data, so I may end up doing this clean install after all!
I'll give you a shout when I get my hands on a blank disc

Thanks,
MID