mbr repair : helpppp !!

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Andy

I have just installed linux mandrake on a separate partition to win2k. I
have several physical drives. My largest drive D: is 120Gb and contained
80Gb worth of video data for my work. Now i have installed mandrake -
nothing is showing up on this drive. I think Mandrake has overwritten my
mbr.

Is there a recovery procedure i can use for the mbr ??? I urgently need the
video data back .

i made a very recent win2k emergency recovery disk.

thanks

AL
 
My 2003 pro disc wont boot. Ive set my bios primary boot to cdrom, but
still nothing.

Which option shall i take ?
1) Boot with win2k emergency recovery floppy disc then hope it asks me to
insert cdrom,

2) Boot with the win2k 4 floppy disc start up.

3) Load my win98, which i installed on another partition and put my win2k
disc in there.

Ive run win2k recently and downloaded PC Inspector
(http://www.pcinspector.de/file_recovery/UK/welcome.htm) free edition. It
says my D drive is very corrupt. !! but it recognises there is data there.
Im hoping it is just the mbr.

thanks

AL




Jonathan Maltz said:
Boot off the CD into a recovery console. Type:
fixmbr
fixboot
And reboot

--
--Jonathan Maltz [Microsoft MVP - Windows Server]
http://www.imbored.biz - A Windows Server 2003 visual, step-by-step
tutorial site :-)
Only reply by newsgroup. If I see an email I didn't ask for, it will be
deleted without reading.


Andy said:
I have just installed linux mandrake on a separate partition to win2k. I
have several physical drives. My largest drive D: is 120Gb and contained
80Gb worth of video data for my work. Now i have installed mandrake -
nothing is showing up on this drive. I think Mandrake has overwritten my
mbr.

Is there a recovery procedure i can use for the mbr ??? I urgently need the
video data back .

i made a very recent win2k emergency recovery disk.

thanks

AL
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I'll assume you meant 2000 disc.

Try the ERD - not guarantees

--
--Jonathan Maltz [Microsoft MVP - Windows Server]
http://www.imbored.biz - A Windows Server 2003 visual, step-by-step
tutorial site :-)
Only reply by newsgroup. If I see an email I didn't ask for, it will be
deleted without reading.


Andy said:
My 2003 pro disc wont boot. Ive set my bios primary boot to cdrom, but
still nothing.

Which option shall i take ?
1) Boot with win2k emergency recovery floppy disc then hope it asks me to
insert cdrom,

2) Boot with the win2k 4 floppy disc start up.

3) Load my win98, which i installed on another partition and put my win2k
disc in there.

Ive run win2k recently and downloaded PC Inspector
(http://www.pcinspector.de/file_recovery/UK/welcome.htm) free edition. It
says my D drive is very corrupt. !! but it recognises there is data there.
Im hoping it is just the mbr.

thanks

AL




Jonathan Maltz said:
Boot off the CD into a recovery console. Type:
fixmbr
fixboot
And reboot

--
--Jonathan Maltz [Microsoft MVP - Windows Server]
http://www.imbored.biz - A Windows Server 2003 visual, step-by-step
tutorial site :-)
Only reply by newsgroup. If I see an email I didn't ask for, it will be
deleted without reading.


Andy said:
I have just installed linux mandrake on a separate partition to win2k. I
have several physical drives. My largest drive D: is 120Gb and contained
80Gb worth of video data for my work. Now i have installed mandrake -
nothing is showing up on this drive. I think Mandrake has overwritten my
mbr.

Is there a recovery procedure i can use for the mbr ??? I urgently
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need
the
video data back .

i made a very recent win2k emergency recovery disk.

thanks

AL
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yes - sorry win2k pro disc

Jonathan Maltz said:
I'll assume you meant 2000 disc.

Try the ERD - not guarantees

--
--Jonathan Maltz [Microsoft MVP - Windows Server]
http://www.imbored.biz - A Windows Server 2003 visual, step-by-step
tutorial site :-)
Only reply by newsgroup. If I see an email I didn't ask for, it will be
deleted without reading.


Andy said:
My 2003 pro disc wont boot. Ive set my bios primary boot to cdrom, but
still nothing.

Which option shall i take ?
1) Boot with win2k emergency recovery floppy disc then hope it asks me to
insert cdrom,

2) Boot with the win2k 4 floppy disc start up.

3) Load my win98, which i installed on another partition and put my win2k
disc in there.

Ive run win2k recently and downloaded PC Inspector
(http://www.pcinspector.de/file_recovery/UK/welcome.htm) free edition. It
says my D drive is very corrupt. !! but it recognises there is data there.
Im hoping it is just the mbr.

thanks

AL




Jonathan Maltz said:
Boot off the CD into a recovery console. Type:
fixmbr
fixboot
And reboot

--
--Jonathan Maltz [Microsoft MVP - Windows Server]
http://www.imbored.biz - A Windows Server 2003 visual, step-by-step
tutorial site :-)
Only reply by newsgroup. If I see an email I didn't ask for, it will be
deleted without reading.


I have just installed linux mandrake on a separate partition to
Click to expand...
win2k.
I
have several physical drives. My largest drive D: is 120Gb and contained
80Gb worth of video data for my work. Now i have installed mandrake -
nothing is showing up on this drive. I think Mandrake has
Click to expand...
overwritten
my
mbr.

Is there a recovery procedure i can use for the mbr ??? I urgently need
the
video data back .

i made a very recent win2k emergency recovery disk.

thanks

AL
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what about if i go into dos and type fdisk /mbr.

i have 3 physical hard drives with several partitions on each. Will it mess
up the partitions. I want to get rid of the lilo boot loader as well.

AL

Jonathan Maltz said:
I'll assume you meant 2000 disc.

Try the ERD - not guarantees

--
--Jonathan Maltz [Microsoft MVP - Windows Server]
http://www.imbored.biz - A Windows Server 2003 visual, step-by-step
tutorial site :-)
Only reply by newsgroup. If I see an email I didn't ask for, it will be
deleted without reading.


Andy said:
My 2003 pro disc wont boot. Ive set my bios primary boot to cdrom, but
still nothing.

Which option shall i take ?
1) Boot with win2k emergency recovery floppy disc then hope it asks me to
insert cdrom,

2) Boot with the win2k 4 floppy disc start up.

3) Load my win98, which i installed on another partition and put my win2k
disc in there.

Ive run win2k recently and downloaded PC Inspector
(http://www.pcinspector.de/file_recovery/UK/welcome.htm) free edition. It
says my D drive is very corrupt. !! but it recognises there is data there.
Im hoping it is just the mbr.

thanks

AL




Jonathan Maltz said:
Boot off the CD into a recovery console. Type:
fixmbr
fixboot
And reboot

--
--Jonathan Maltz [Microsoft MVP - Windows Server]
http://www.imbored.biz - A Windows Server 2003 visual, step-by-step
tutorial site :-)
Only reply by newsgroup. If I see an email I didn't ask for, it will be
deleted without reading.


I have just installed linux mandrake on a separate partition to
Click to expand...
win2k.
I
have several physical drives. My largest drive D: is 120Gb and contained
80Gb worth of video data for my work. Now i have installed mandrake -
nothing is showing up on this drive. I think Mandrake has
Click to expand...
overwritten
my
mbr.

Is there a recovery procedure i can use for the mbr ??? I urgently need
the
video data back .

i made a very recent win2k emergency recovery disk.

thanks

AL
Click to expand...
Click to expand...
Click to expand...
 
Try it.

--
--Jonathan Maltz [Microsoft MVP - Windows Server]
http://www.imbored.biz - A Windows Server 2003 visual, step-by-step
tutorial site :-)
Only reply by newsgroup. If I see an email I didn't ask for, it will be
deleted without reading.


Andy said:
what about if i go into dos and type fdisk /mbr.

i have 3 physical hard drives with several partitions on each. Will it mess
up the partitions. I want to get rid of the lilo boot loader as well.

AL

Jonathan Maltz said:
I'll assume you meant 2000 disc.

Try the ERD - not guarantees

--
--Jonathan Maltz [Microsoft MVP - Windows Server]
http://www.imbored.biz - A Windows Server 2003 visual, step-by-step
tutorial site :-)
Only reply by newsgroup. If I see an email I didn't ask for, it will be
deleted without reading.


Andy said:
My 2003 pro disc wont boot. Ive set my bios primary boot to cdrom, but
still nothing.

Which option shall i take ?
1) Boot with win2k emergency recovery floppy disc then hope it asks me to
insert cdrom,

2) Boot with the win2k 4 floppy disc start up.

3) Load my win98, which i installed on another partition and put my win2k
disc in there.

Ive run win2k recently and downloaded PC Inspector
(http://www.pcinspector.de/file_recovery/UK/welcome.htm) free edition. It
says my D drive is very corrupt. !! but it recognises there is data there.
Im hoping it is just the mbr.

thanks

AL




Boot off the CD into a recovery console. Type:
fixmbr
fixboot
And reboot

--
--Jonathan Maltz [Microsoft MVP - Windows Server]
http://www.imbored.biz - A Windows Server 2003 visual, step-by-step
tutorial site :-)
Only reply by newsgroup. If I see an email I didn't ask for, it
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be urgently
need
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