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Paul
I installed my new SATA drive on my ASUS A7N8X Deluxe running XP pro SP1-
120g maxtor, was going to partition it using Partition Magic 8 - a 30gb
partition and a 90g one - all was going fine, it then said it needed to
reboot to complete the changes
So off it went, rebooted, and while in the windows/dos hybrid state (where
checkdisk happens) - and threw up and error. Thought maybe it didn't like
my SATA drive, so rebooted into windows
Well, that's what should've happened
Instead I get complaints about no
OS - On closer inspection, what was my C drive, had been 'converted' into
RAW format (I used a spare HD to boot from)
I can only assume that PM didn't find my SATA drive, and then proceeded to
try and create a 90g partition on a 80g disk
So I managed to recover all my files using Stellar Phoenix as my old verions
of EasyRecover just threw up lots of File000.jpg - Stellar managed to get
the entire HD structure and recover the files (after about 4hrs of churning)
I've been trying to find out if I can just restore everything to normal - I
have my files ok, its just now turned into a little project
I tried using resqdisk /rebuild /fat32 - but it didn't seem to do anything -
maybe because its an unregistered version - But I tried using diskpatch -
and it found some FAT32 tables, and looked promising, showing the drive
structure - but i'll be damned if I can get it back to normal - I tried
fixing the MBR, MBR tables and using the Sector 63/69 restore - but to no
avail.
Anyone got any other tips, or should I just accept defeat and reformat?
Cheers for any help
Paul
120g maxtor, was going to partition it using Partition Magic 8 - a 30gb
partition and a 90g one - all was going fine, it then said it needed to
reboot to complete the changes
So off it went, rebooted, and while in the windows/dos hybrid state (where
checkdisk happens) - and threw up and error. Thought maybe it didn't like
my SATA drive, so rebooted into windows
Well, that's what should've happened
Instead I get complaints about noOS - On closer inspection, what was my C drive, had been 'converted' into
RAW format (I used a spare HD to boot from)
I can only assume that PM didn't find my SATA drive, and then proceeded to
try and create a 90g partition on a 80g disk
So I managed to recover all my files using Stellar Phoenix as my old verions
of EasyRecover just threw up lots of File000.jpg - Stellar managed to get
the entire HD structure and recover the files (after about 4hrs of churning)
I've been trying to find out if I can just restore everything to normal - I
have my files ok, its just now turned into a little project
I tried using resqdisk /rebuild /fat32 - but it didn't seem to do anything -
maybe because its an unregistered version - But I tried using diskpatch -
and it found some FAT32 tables, and looked promising, showing the drive
structure - but i'll be damned if I can get it back to normal - I tried
fixing the MBR, MBR tables and using the Sector 63/69 restore - but to no
avail.
Anyone got any other tips, or should I just accept defeat and reformat?
Cheers for any help
Paul