Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2004 02:36:47 +0000 From: "Matt Hanson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [LIB] Serious boot problem - Help needed!
Hey John,
From: john <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
The acual recovery is very simple. Install the dos version of Norton Disk Doctor on your windows boot floppy. Boot using the floppy. Do a fdisk /mbr on the c drive. Sys the c drive. Copy NDD to c. Remove floppy. Reboot. Run NDD. It'll fix your fat structure and anything else wrong.
Hmmm... that entails writing data to the drive that I want to recover data from :-/
And it looks like just doing an FDISK /MBR might be a bit problematic. Stellar Phoenix has found FATs for 33 logical drives on the HDD. No doubt residuals from past wiping, repartitioning and installing OSs on the drive. Who knows which FAT FDISK might decide to use... I have to admit, I'm pretty clueless about how the FAT32 file system and partitioning works to begin with. I started using WinHex to learn a little more about it, but I've got light years to go before I'll get a reasonable grasp of it all.
I was able to recover my C: and D: drive data, leaving an E: drive left to deal with. But it looks like that E: drive is blown to pieces. Phoenix doesn't report any logical drives the size of the lost E: drive, so I'm trying the most likely of the 33 logical drives it reports.
Then, a better way to go with Disk Doctor may be to run it from an installation on the desktop I have the 20GB HDD from the L100 set up in. I'd think I could just run it right on the 20GB HDD without running FDISK on it 1st, couldn't I? Or are partition problems beyond DD?
Then there's always MBRWORK to play with, but it looks like that may require a better handle on how partition tables and FATs are written to a HDD than I'm capable of. If Franklin, or anyone else can fill me in on just what it may entail, it's be fun to play with. I just started up the program for a moment, but didn't explore the MBR editing tool.
Matt
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