failed XP repair resulted in lost drive

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An XP reload using 'repair' was terminated prematurely.
Upon restart the system fails due boot sector on drive
failure. There is important data which did not backup
properly that I need to get from the drive. Any advice
before I try to rebuild MBS ... or are there tools
available to allow me to get the data off first? Any
help is much appreciated.

Bob V.
 
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An XP reload using 'repair' was terminated prematurely.
Upon restart the system fails due boot sector on drive
failure. There is important data which did not backup
properly that I need to get from the drive. Any advice
before I try to rebuild MBS ... or are there tools
available to allow me to get the data off first? Any
help is much appreciated.

Bob V.
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Do you have a extra Hard Disc with OS on it or could be
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put on it. I have changed out my C: with different OS
made it master and changed what is like Your C: now make
it slave D: drive, then from C: you take off files from
D: as it doesn't require any Operating files at all.
 
Drive is not recognizable. MBR is gone ... I attempted
an FIXMBR from Rconcole ... but the command fails stating
an MBR cannot be writen.

Big problem.

Any help would be appreciated.
 
On Mon, 22 Mar 2004 04:28:45 -0800, "Bob V"
Drive is not recognizable. MBR is gone ... I attempted
an FIXMBR from Rconcole ... but the command fails stating
an MBR cannot be writen.
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Big problem.
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Aye. What I'd do here is a "dumb" image from the sick HD onto a new
and working HD that is same or larger in capacity.

Then work on data recovery on the healthy drive - i.e. fight one of
the two battles (sick HD, corrupted contents) at a time.

Trouble is, pulling the whole HD takes time, and a sick HD may not
live long enough to complete the process. If you have recovery sware
that will view the HD "as if" a certain MBR was in effect, then you
can cherry-pick your crucials first.

If you know of sware that can do that, do tell me!

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