Here's the report from PartInfo you asked for. I tried to post it to your
forum but I could not get access. The page just stopped downloading with no
error and no data.
The defective partition was Fat32 and the working D: drive is NTFS.
I ran the iRecover program and it was very good at finding the deleted files
but I need to get access to the NON deleted files that XP can not see
Molto
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Partition Information Program
Sep 16 2002 - DOS32 Version
BiosExtensions: 0x2100 Subsets (0x00000005): Access EDD
EGeo 0x0000 16383 16 63 60058656 0 512
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Disk 0: 3738 Cylinders, 255 Heads, 63 Sectors/Track.
BiosExtensions: 0x2100 Subsets (0x00000005): Access EDD
The BIOS supports INT 13h extensions for this drive.
============================ Partition Tables ==============================
Partition -----Begin---- ------End----- Start Num
Sector # Boot Cyl Head Sect FS Cyl Head Sect Sect Sects
---------- - ---- ---- ---- ---- -- ---- ---- ---- ---------- ----------
0 0 80 [ 0 1 1] 0C [1023 254 63] 63 41945652
[Large Drive Placeholders]
0 1 1 2610 254 63
Actual Values
0 1 00 [1023 0 1] 0F [1023 254 63] 41945715 18089190
[Large Drive Placeholders]
2611 0 1 3736 254 63
Actual Values
41945715 0 00 [1023 1 1] 07 [1023 254 63] 41945778 18089127
[Large Drive Placeholders]
2611 1 1 3736 254 63
Actual Values
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Disk 0: 29321.8 Megabytes
============================= Partition Information
==============================
Volume Partition Partition Start
Total
Letter:Label Type Status Size MB Sector # Sector
Sectors
------------- --------------- -------- -------- ---------- - ---------- ----
------
C:NO NAME FAT32X Pri,Boot 20481.3 0 0 63
41945652
ExtendedX Pri 8832.6 0 1 41945715
18089190
EPBR Log 8832.6 None - 41945715
18089190
NTFS Log 8832.6 41945715 0 41945778
18089127
Unallocated Pri 7.8 None - 60034905
16065
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Boot Sector for drive C: Drive 1, Starting Sector: 63, Type: FAT32
========================================================================
1. Jump: EB 58 90
2. OEM Name: MSDOS5.0
3. Bytes Per Sector: 512
4. Sectors Per Cluster: 32
5. Reserved Sectors: 32
6. Number of FAT's: 2
7. Reserved: 0x0000
8. Reserved: 0x0000
9. Media Descriptor: 0xF8
10. Sectors Per FAT: 0
11. Sectors Per Track: 63 (0x3F)
12. Number of Heads: 255 (0xFF)
13. Hidden Sectors: 63 (0x3F)
14. Big Total Sectors: 41945652 (0x2800A34)
15. Big Sectors Per FAT: 10236
16. Extended Flags: 0x0000
17. FS Version: 0
18. First Cluster of Root: 2 (0x2)
19. FS Info Sector: 1
20. Backup Boot Sector: 6
21. Reserved: 0x00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
22. Drive ID: 0x80
23. Reserved for NT: 0x01
24. Extended Boot Sig: 0x29
25. Serial Number: 0x04246EC9
26. Volume Name: NO NAME
27. File System Type: FAT32
28. Boot Signature: 0xAA55
========================================================================
Boot Sector for drive *: Drive 1, Starting Sector: 41945778, Type: NTFS
========================================================================
1. Jump: EB 52 90
2. OEM Name: NTFS
3. Bytes Per Sector: 512
4. Sectors Per Cluster: 8
5. Reserved Sectors: 0
6. Number of FAT's: 0
7. Root Dir Entries: 0
8. Total Sectors: 0 (0x0)
9. Media Descriptor: 0xF8
10. Sectors Per FAT: 0
11. Sectors Per Track: 63 (0x3F)
12. Number of Heads: 255 (0xFF)
13. Hidden Sectors: 63 (0x3F)
14. Big Total Sectors: 0 (0x0)
15. Unused: 0x80 00 80 00
16. Total NTFS Sectors: 18089126 (0x11404A6)
17. MFT Start Cluster: 4 (0x4)
18. MFT Mirror Start Clust: 1130570 (0x11404A)
19. Clusters per FRS: 246
20. Size per Index Buffer: 1
21. Serial Number: 0x7C0C012B0C00E1CE
22. Checksum: 0x00000000
23. Boot Signature: 0xAA55
NOYB said:
Molto said:
I have XP drive with 2 partitions and the bootable C drive is corrupted. I
can boot to the boot menu but when I select, it locks up.
The problem is that when I boot with another XP or 2000 drive, I can not see
the data on the corrupted drive and Win XP says it's not formatted.
Either the boot sector is corrupt, or the partition table entry for this
partition is messed up and is not pointing to the boot sector.
I can
see all the data on the D: partition of the corrupted drive. I have tried
many repair utils including Norton, Virtual Lab, EasyRecovery Professional,
Fix-It Utilities 2000, restorer 2000 and others. Virtual Lab (and some
other utils) could see all the data but it is really geared to retrieve
deleted files and it has some silly 64K size limit.
Silly, that's the demo versions I guess .... what's silly about that?
Anyway, out iRecover demo will allow recovery of one folder each time you
run it. Apart from that the damage may be 'fixable'. To estimate your
chances get partinfo from our support page and extract it to a bootable DOS
diskette. Boot the PC from diskette and run partinfo:
partinfo>anything.txt [enter]
You are welcome to post the contents of the text file in our online support
forum.
