deleted mbr,boot sector

[poster]

so the primary HDD FAT partition cannot be found(appears unallocated)
any more
(lost &found recovery software used to copy the files,said: master
partition and boot sectors deleted)
Rebuilt MBR and partition table in Partition table doctor software but
still same (actually now it reports first partition free)
Active partition recovery,Norton Disc doctor- no help so undid their
changes
Any ideas please?
free SPFdisk 2000 has also a rebuild MBR function..

 

[1PW]

so the primary HDD FAT partition cannot be found(appears unallocated)
any more
(lost &found recovery software used to copy the files,said: master
partition and boot sectors deleted)
Rebuilt MBR and partition table in Partition table doctor software but
still same (actually now it reports first partition free)
Active partition recovery,Norton Disc doctor- no help so undid their
changes
Any ideas please?
free SPFdisk 2000 has also a rebuild MBR function..

Hello:

This reads like you have some experience. It also reads like you're
about a half-step from salvaging what you can from that HDD and
starting from the beginning.

Good luck to you.

Pete

 

[Pennywise]

HDD FAT

Norton Disc doctor- no help so undid their
changes

Norton Disc Dr. never did me any good.

Use Norton DiskEdit.exe, use it to exchange the FATS.

If you didn't know, there are two fat tables, If first goes bad you
can replace it with the second. Norton diskedit has an option to do
just that.

 

[chuckcar]

so the primary HDD FAT partition cannot be found(appears unallocated)
any more
(lost &found recovery software used to copy the files,said: master
partition and boot sectors deleted)
Rebuilt MBR and partition table in Partition table doctor software but
still same (actually now it reports first partition free)
Active partition recovery,Norton Disc doctor- no help so undid their
changes
Any ideas please?
free SPFdisk 2000 has also a rebuild MBR function..

Have you looked at the directory sectors to see if there's anything there?
If not, you're scrawed.

 

[poster]

Have you looked at the directory sectors to see if there's anything there?
If not, you're scrawed.

no dirs -disk cannot be found in win/dos(however primary partition is
unallocated and secondray is there, files on both as well)
I guess I should have gone for -rebuild Partition table after
rebuilding MBR in PTD

 

[chuckcar]

no dirs -disk cannot be found in win/dos(however primary partition is
unallocated and secondray is there, files on both as well)
I guess I should have gone for -rebuild Partition table after
rebuilding MBR in PTD

No, I didn't mean do a directory - that will probably fail anyways. I
meant with a hex editor.