FIXMBR corrupts Partition Table... Please Help!!!

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Calvin

Hi Experts,

About a month ago my system crashed and would not boot up. I issued the
FIXMBR command within the recovery consol, now there is only a 10 Mb FAT12
left from a 20Gb Fat32 single partition. I read up on partition table and
such and tried various disk rescue programs, I can see all the data, but of
course these are demo versions so it see but no touch deal. From reading
some newsgroup I notice there are others in the exact same situation. I
tried one of the suggestions from the posting to change the FAT12(01) back
to FAT32(0C) using ptedit, fdisk still thinks it is FAT12. I notice some
utility programs will now detect this partition as FAT12 and some as FAT32.
This is driving me crazy, does anyone know what FIXMBR has done and how to
reverse the damages?

Any input would be much appreciated.
 
You mention using fdisk, you shouldn't be using that with XP. Have you tried
fixmbr /? for any options or did you try fixboot.
It may be the disk as corrupt I hope you backed up your data.
Neil
 
I only used the fdisk to view the partition info. I've tried fixmbr and
then later tried fixboot... same results. Do you know where the partition
information are stored other than the first sector of the disk? Would you
know a systematic way of checking for such error?

BTW thanks for the quick response on this.
 
No sorry, I don't know where partition info is stored. Unfortunately I have
only used the fixmbr command which worked for me when booting from the XP
CD.
Me thinks you will have to wait for a response from a techie, unless you
fancy deleting the partition and re-installing.

Sorry I can't be of any more help.
Neil
 
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