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Consumer Products => Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security (legacy Pro Antivirus, Internet Security, Premier) => Topic started by: dts_cjs on August 02, 2022, 04:24:48 PM

Title: Why does Premium Security NOT scan/offer to fix corrupt boot sector.
Post by: dts_cjs on August 02, 2022, 04:24:48 PM

In the "old" days, viruses attacked the boot sector (of floppies then, but HDDs later on), The latest Premium Security AvastPE version Rescue Disk does a marvelous job scanning and pronouncing every file (that is FILE SYSTEM file) as clean. No mention of the actual boot sector, or even the Master Boot Record (MBR, I understand the distinction), which, like British Royalty, have no names. Can someone please explain this to me, and maybe point me to a version (or even another product) that does this? I've been down due to an (NTFS) INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE stop code for four days and had hoped AvastPE would address this.

Thanks very much,
Craig Starr
Danville NH, USA
603-382-2274 (VOIP)
Ironically, I will have to boot with the Avast Rescue Disk in order to even read any replies. This while I'm l searching for something to repair my corrupt BOOT SECTOR...

Title: Re: Why does Premium Security NOT scan/offer to fix corrupt boot sector.
Post by: bob3160 on August 03, 2022, 02:35:00 AM

See if this is of help to you:
https://www.datarepairtools.com/solutions/fix-damaged-and-corrupted-master-boot-record-or-mbr.html