Re: AVG free Scan

E Zapata wrote:
|| On Thu, 19 Jan 2006 17:59:00 +0530, "newbie" <jcd@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
||
||| While scanning my PC, Windows XP pro with AVG 7 free version I got
||| the following results:
|||
||| 1) Partition Table (MBR) Reading Error
|||
||| 2) Boot Sector of Disk C Reading Error
|||
|||
||| No Virus found.
|||
||| What does these two reading error means and how do I rectify them?
|||
||| Your help will be of great help to me
|||
||| Thanks & Regards.
|||
||
||
|| Are you running your scan in Safe Mode?
||
|| Was your disk partititioned with some third party utility besides
|| Microsoft's?
||
|| These are common problems to these type of errors according to the
|| AVG Free forum (http://forum.grisoft.cz/freeforum/).


Yes. I found these errors when I ran AVG in safe mode.

No. Disk was partitioned while installing windows xp.

Regards.



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