Fixboot Problem !! HELP! SOS! ASAP

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Yoav

I have a HUGE PROBLEM.

ok. its like this.

I'm working with a 120GB Hard drive, devided in to 2 partitions, both
NTFS, one for system (windows, program files ect.) and one for files
(mp3's, videos, documents..)

3 hours ago i wanted to reblast my pc, it was working kind of slow and
had too much stuff installed on it.. and it was time for a fresh
start. i moved everything immportant to the second partition and
rebooted from the windowsXP cdrom. i install the OS on partition one!

everything went great. windows was up and running in no time, and i
even started installing my usual software on it.

while i was doing that, i went to my 2nd partition to see all the data
is still intact, and it was. but wierd enough, there was an ntldr file
there.

"ntldr?? why?? this is not the master partition? "
i thought to myself
"must be the remains from the old OS, better delete it"
and i deleted it!

of course when i rebooted windows didnt find the ntldr and wouldnt
load.

ok, i thought, lets just go in the windows CDrom and use FixMBR,
did it, didnt work, so i tried, fixboot C:.
didnt work
Fixboot D:
didnt work

but not only did it not work!!
it made the D: drive (the 2nd partition where all my VERY IMPORTANT
DOCUMENTS are INACCASABLE!

i just hooked up an old 40g hard drive just to see if i can access the
other hard drive, and i sure can access the first partition, but when
i try to access the 2nd one, i get the old "the disk is not formatted,
would you like to format now?" massage.

please help, i am about to kill myself soon if i don't get an answer.
I'm sure the data is still there. its just a matter of restoring the
boot record or something.

please.

help.

thank you.
 
I've never seen the fixmbr or fixboot actually fix
anything. I've seen it screw things up worse.
You should boot to the Windows CD and go to Recovery
Console and run CHKDSK /R, if it will let you.
If not, you should buy a Sysinternals CD and see if that
will save your data.
 
On the contrary I have seen FIXMBR in particular save a lot of peoples
machines. Sounds to me like the file system identifier on the D drive was
replaced in some way and thats why you arent seeing the drive any longer.
CHKDSK probably wont run on the drive and it doesnt have a file system.

Best thing you can do is try a data recovery place like ontrack.com and see
if their free download will allow you to see the data. You can manually add
the file system identifer using disk probe but its too involved for a
newsgroup posting.
 
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