Need Program to rebuild Partion on 3.2MEG Maxtor HD

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Robert J. Stevens

I lost the Partion Block on my Maxtor T32Free says all the files are
there but I need a program to re-write the Partion Info without Fdisking

Does such exist
Hoping in Wisconsin
 
Robert J. Stevens wrote in said:
I lost the Partion Block on my Maxtor T32Free says all the files are
there but I need a program to re-write the Partion Info without Fdisking
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I've seen many report good experience with Testdisk:
<http://www.cgsecurity.org/index.html?testdisk.html>
<quote>
Tool to check and undelete partition
Works with the following partitions:
- FAT12 FAT16 FAT32
- Linux EXT2/EXT3
- Linux SWAP (version 1 and 2)
- NTFS (Windows NT/W2K/XP)
- BeFS (BeOS)
- UFS (BSD)
- Netware
- ReiserFS

TestDisk is under GNU Public License.
It runs under
DOS/Win9x
Windows NT 4/2000/XP/2003
Linux
FreeBSD
</quote>

Might also have a look at various info/utilities
by Svend Olaf Mikkelsen, here:
<http://www.partitionsupport.com/utilities.htm>

All the best,
Bjorn Simonsen
 
Robert J. Stevens said:
Thanks to ALL.
I did have PowerMax and forgot Will see if it helps
TA
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I did find a Program to Copy and restore the Hard Drive to another. Gotta rig A
SCSI backup on my Main Puter to free up my 3.1 GIG IDE Hard drives for
replacement purposes.
Thanks for all the Input
Bob in Wisconsin
 
I lost the Partion Block on my Maxtor T32Free says all the files are
there but I need a program to re-write the Partion Info without Fdisking

Does such exist
Hoping in Wisconsin
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ByteBack

http://www.toolsthatwork.com/downloads.htm#bb

Yeah, off topic for this group. If you want to, contact me by email
and I can help you figure it out for the data you can't recover.

This next paragraph probably belongs in another discussion group since
it is hardware-related, and the 2 OS's mentioned certainly are not
freeware. Anyway, since you're here and I'm here...Are you by any
chance using 2 hard drives? I changed from Win2K to XP on a new drive
after a fatal hardware crash on the the original boot drive. A clean
reinstall of Windows 2K would probably work also. Anyway, using the
C: partition for Windows on the new drive, the partitions (and files)
reappeared on the slave drive exactly as they were before (except for
the drive letters). That may fix half of your data recovery problems.
 
I lost the Partion Block on my Maxtor T32Free says all the files are
there but I need a program to re-write the Partion Info without Fdisking

Does such exist
Hoping in Wisconsin
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MBRWork will do this as will as several other things.
I restored lost partitions on one of my drives, on one of my boxes with it
several years ago. It is a good tool to have around. Note "A" below.

Note info here:
http://members.shaw.ca/LeesPlace/mbrwork.htm

Download
http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/downloads/MBRWORK.ZIP

MBRWork - Freeware utility to perform some common and uncommon MBR
and disk functions. Provided As-Is.

It can perform the following:

1 - Backup the first track on a hard drive.

2 - Restore the backup file.

3 - Reset the EMBR area to all zeros.

4 - Reset the MBR are to all zeros.

5 - Install standard MBR Code

6 - Set a partition active (avail on the command line too)

7 - Work with multiple hard drives.

8 - Remove EZ-Drive (You must boot directly to a diskette (by passing ez-
drive)
for this option to show)

9 - Edit MBR partition entry values.

A - If no partitions exist in the MBR and no EMBR exists then this option
will allow you to recover lost FAT, HPFS, NTFS, and Extened partitions.

C - Capture up to 64 disk sectors to a file.

R - Restore up to 64 disk sectors from a file. This feature should only
be used by those who completely understand what they are doing!

T - Transfer/Copy sectors from disk to disk. This feature should only
be used by those who completely understand what they are doing!

P - Compare sectors.

Be sure to visit www.terabyteunlimited.com for more great software!

Kruppt
 
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I lost the Partion Block on my Maxtor T32Free says all the files are
there but I need a program to re-write the Partion Info without Fdisking
Click to expand...

There is a way to reconstruct the partitions, easier if you remember
the approximate sizes and can do some calculations.

See my Hard Disk page (has not been updated for a long time as it
relates to mostly DOS operations).

--
Sandy Archer
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For links to Harddisk management freeware
http:/members.tripod.com/~diligent/harddisk.htm
 
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