911: help with boot volume/ MBR/partition

[mr chocolate]

All,


Can someone offer advice for the following failure:

a) i can no longer boot from my original boot drive
b) i exchanged the drive cables and now boot from an alternate drive - i
want to recover the original drive
c) when i use 'disk manager' i can see the original boot drive (labelled
'Disk 1', the physical volume is partitioned into two logical volumes, one
15GB, labelled 'F', the other 138GB labelled 'G'
d) the 15GB volume, the original boot volume, is not accessible
e) in Disk Manager, the 15GB volume, identified as 'F' is noted as 'Healthy
(Active), when I change focus to this volume it becomes crosshatched.
f) the second volume on this drive, lablled 'G' is simply identifed as
'Healthy', it is surrounded by a green border.
g) I can access Volume 'G' and see all files
h) I *cannot* access Volume "F". even though its listed as Healthy (Active)
and even though I can change the Drive identification letter (From 'F' to
any arbitrary unassigned letter)


i) can i conclude that this partition is not deleted but perhaps the MBR is
missing? If so what can I do to repair this, if anything. I do not have an
ASR disk.

Thanks for your time and expert advice

mr chocolate

 

[Rick \Nutcase\ Rogers]

Hi,

testdisk from www.cgsecurity.org may be able to help recover this.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

 

[Guest]

May be the boot sector or FAT/ MFT are corrupt.
use some tool to fix it.

I suggest you use Partition Table Doctor to fix boot sector.

First thing I recommend you download the demo version of
Partition Table Doctor.( http://www.ptdd.com/download.htm )

Run the program and right click the partition and choose fixboot.

For more detail:
http://www.ptdd.com/fixboot.htm
http://www.ptdd.com/mbr.htm
http://www.ptdd.com