Toxic Byte

I’ve found suggestions that say run fisk with the /MBR option. But at a msdos prompt it tells me that:

'fdisk' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.

Which is a long winded way of putting it to say the least. BUT… after looking for another solution I read places saying DO NOT DO THAT! It’s a dos thing, not ntfs or something like that. Instead, they suggest:

fixboot c:
fixmbr

BUT DON’T DO THAT! Apparently, it ain’t going to work on NTFS. Hmm, then, what next. The foxboot, fixmbr and bootcfg dos commands just don’t seem to exist on my windows installation.

Ah, it seems that “fixmbr” is only available in XP Professional. AGH! (or it is and it isn’t or something). Well, I can’t run the windows xp recovery console because I’ve just moved house and I wouldn’t have a clue where the damn recovery discs are. Hope comes in the form of an emergency boot cd which I’m burning as we speak…

I’ve had this PC for about a year now and never once tried to use the DVD burner, so it was with disapointment I found that I couldn’t drag files to the DVD drive like I can when I want to burn a CD-ROM. I thought I must just have a duff disc, but after buying some more I found they didn’t work either!

A quick search online revealing an article on Microsoft’s site that says try “Sonic DVDit!, neoDVD, or one of ULead’s DVD products”. That’s odd, I thought, perhaps my drive came with some software and following a swift slap to the forehead I find that I’ve got CDBurnerXP Pro 3 installed already. It’s free to download and works well.

Um, and that as they say, is that…

Me either, happens all the damn time, you get a message like “The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process”. When you know damn well there’s nothing accessing it. It’s a damn movie file you never even got round to watching from about a year ago.
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