Hard drive suddenly lost boot record

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All:

I have 4 hard drives on my 500mhz machine. For some reason the drive
(FAT 32 format) installed in a removeable docking station suddenly
began to require scanning following boot up. I had previously executed
a check to see if the drive was fragmented. The drive was being used
as a document storage device only and have not done much Read/Write so
with luck it should be fairly clean.

Recalling that Windows 98/Me used to allow the copying of a new Master
Boot Record to the drive, I activated the boot record option that
appears before XP boots up and did not think about the statement ". .
.. partition. . .." Now, I can't get into the drive because it says it
doesn't find the FAT table. I have done nothing since. Drive seems to
operate okay. I have photos and other data I'd like to save.

1. Have I lost all my data if, in fact, I have reset the partition?

2. How do I get the data back if, in fact, I can recover?

3. Can my actions be reversed?

4. If the actions cannot be reversed, is it possible to copy the data
to a new drive say with Norton Ghost?

5. Any ideas of what may have gone wrong in the first place?

6. Does this happen in XP once in a while?

Thanks,

Ron
 
All:

I have 4 hard drives on my 500mhz machine. For some reason the drive
(FAT 32 format) installed in a removeable docking station suddenly
began to require scanning following boot up. I had previously executed
a check to see if the drive was fragmented. The drive was being used
as a document storage device only and have not done much Read/Write so
with luck it should be fairly clean.

Recalling that Windows 98/Me used to allow the copying of a new Master
Boot Record to the drive, I activated the boot record option that
appears before XP boots up and did not think about the statement ". .
. partition. . .." Now, I can't get into the drive because it says it
doesn't find the FAT table. I have done nothing since. Drive seems to
operate okay. I have photos and other data I'd like to save.

1. Have I lost all my data if, in fact, I have reset the partition?

2. How do I get the data back if, in fact, I can recover?

3. Can my actions be reversed?

4. If the actions cannot be reversed, is it possible to copy the data
to a new drive say with Norton Ghost?

5. Any ideas of what may have gone wrong in the first place?

6. Does this happen in XP once in a while?

Thanks,

Ron
Click to expand...

You write "I activated the boot record option that appears before
XP boots up". I don't understand this - would you please explain
exactly what you did?
 
All:

I have 4 hard drives on my 500mhz machine. For some reason the drive
(FAT 32 format) installed in a removeable docking station suddenly
began to require scanning following boot up. I had previously executed
a check to see if the drive was fragmented. The drive was being used
as a document storage device only and have not done much Read/Write so
with luck it should be fairly clean.

Recalling that Windows 98/Me used to allow the copying of a new Master
Boot Record to the drive, I activated the boot record option that
appears before XP boots up and did not think about the statement ". .
. partition. . .." Now, I can't get into the drive because it says it
doesn't find the FAT table. I have done nothing since. Drive seems to
operate okay. I have photos and other data I'd like to save.

1. Have I lost all my data if, in fact, I have reset the partition?

2. How do I get the data back if, in fact, I can recover?

3. Can my actions be reversed?

4. If the actions cannot be reversed, is it possible to copy the data
to a new drive say with Norton Ghost?

5. Any ideas of what may have gone wrong in the first place?

6. Does this happen in XP once in a while?

Thanks,

Ron
Click to expand...

If it wasn't bootable to begin with, it wouldn't have had a boot record on
it to begin with. What, exactly did you do to it?
 
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