> No, it's the hard drive. I'm having the same problem with 
> Windows XP on a laptop HDD right now. I copied the main 
> partition at a low level with `dd`, but now all I get is a 
> black screen at boot. I've tried `fixboot C:`, `fixmbr`, and 
> `bootcfg /REBUILD` from with recovery console to correct the 
> boot sector to no avail. I don't have a clue how to fix it. 
> Let me know if you find out.

Try fdisk /mbr to rebuild the master boot record.

Regards,

Chris
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