I blew my HDD with dskprobe.exe

[bartha10]

Hi Everyone,

I admit I made a big mistake. I intended to convert my dynamic disk
back to basic with the suggestions on

http://faq.arstechnica.com/link.php?i=1806

I edited the lines 01C0 and 01D0 and changed the third bits from 42 to
07. After that I rebooted and Windows XP Prof. SP2 just hangs at
startup at the blue loading screen.

Any suggestions how I can fix this.

Thanks a lot in advance.

Greg

 

[David B.]

reverse what you did?

 

[Guest]

Find a Bart'sPE CD to run DiskProbe from or remove the drive and use a $10
IDE to USB cable and plug the drive into another XP machine's USB port.
Either method will allow you to use DiskProbe to undo the hard drive changes.

In the future before making changes like this to the hard drive you could
create a RescueBoot CD after copying DiskProbe to the RescueBoot hard drive
directory. We do this all the time when demonstrating how to use the
RescueBoot CD and DiskProbe to restore a damaged master boot record.

 

[bartha10]

Find a Bart'sPE CD to run DiskProbe from or remove the drive and use a $10
IDE to USB cable and plug the drive into another XP machine's USB port.
Either method will allow you to use DiskProbe to undo the hard drive changes.

In the future before making changes like this to the hard drive you could
create a RescueBoot CD after copying DiskProbe to the RescueBoot hard drive
directory. We do this all the time when demonstrating how to use the
RescueBoot CD and DiskProbe to restore a damaged master boot record.

--
John Hensleywww.resqware.com









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Thanks, I'm going to follow the suggestions and give a feedback over
the results.

 

[bartha10]

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Hi John,

on the Bart's PE CD diskprobe.exe was not present so I couldn't undone
the changes. I ended up reinstalling the OS from scratch.
Thanks for your help, I really appreciate it.