Finally able to resolve my problem. Dawned on me that I had Roxio GoBack installed on the main drive--in effect producing an unsupported "ghost"...
Many thanks to Mudcrab & KOlo for your help. When you say use the rescue disk, do you mean boot from that? Should I make the disk made to boot...
There is nothing that speaks of any virus, HD protection, boot sector manipulation, etc. anywhere in the BIOS Screens. Computer boots normally....
Tried it with all start-up items disabled, including antivirus-same result. Also, I see no security info at all in the BIOS screens. Maybe it...
Win XP, 160 G drive. Want to partition it to enable dual boot. When trying to partition, get "Unable to write to disk 1 sector0". Pressing...
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