fixboot and fixmbr

[Sandalpooh]

Does running "fixboot" or "fixmbr" to fix a corrputed hard drive delete or in
anyway affect the files on that hard drive?

 

[Rich Barry]

No.

 

[Sandalpooh via WindowsKB.com]

Thanks, Rich. What I've got is a hard drive that has lost its partitions. I
get an invalid partition table error message when trying to boot, or if I
have it as a slave, XP prompts me to format the drive. Will fixboot take
care of this or do you know of a good software package to rescue my files?

 

[Rich Barry]

Is your drives formatted NTFS or FAT32? You could try a Knoppix Live
CD rescue disk. On the disk is a tool that
may help reestablish your partition table. But in any case you can
mount your partitions and recover your files. You can
get it at www.distrowatch.com or google it. It is very simple to use
and it's free if you have broadband and can download
the .iso file.

 

[Rich Barry]

Let me give you more info. Good Luck. You would be interested mostly in
the Fixmbr command.
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;314058

http://tinyurl.com/ysoub

 

[coal_brona]

Hi,

A great data recovery tool is Active@ Undelete tool. It works really
great and yet never failed me before. That should help you, I suppose,
at least it did helped me in a simmilar situation.

http://www.active-undelete.com/