An XP reload using 'repair' was terminated prematurely.
Upon restart the system fails due boot sector on drive
failure. There is important data which did not backup
properly that I need to get from the drive. Any advice
before I try to rebuild MBS ... or are there tools
available to allow me to get the data off first? Any
help is much appreciated.

Bob, try using the Recovery Console and you can rebuild the MBR
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;[LN];314058


"BobV" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> An XP reload using 'repair' was terminated prematurely.
> Upon restart the system fails due boot sector on drive
> failure. There is important data which did not backup
> properly that I need to get from the drive. Any advice
> before I try to rebuild MBS ... or are there tools
> available to allow me to get the data off first? Any
> help is much appreciated.
>
>