Help!!! My MBR has fecked off!

[Sport Billy]

Don't ask how cos I'm not really sure, but something has clearly happened to
the MBR on my IBM deskstar 120GXP (61gigs official, about 57 in reality).

I had three partitions: One NTFS partition installed with WINXP (about
15gigs), one FAT32 (about 30gigs), and one FAT32 (exactly 10.9gigs). I know
the last one because I ran Norton Disk Doctor and that was the only
partition it could find. I knew it wouldn't help with NTFS, but I'm
surprised it missed the large FAT32 one. PM7 was no better either.

I guess if I could only recover the other FAT32 partition at least, I could
then rebuild the partition table to get back the NTFS one, or vice-versa.
There was no free space.

I've now installed WinXP on a spare disk, but I desperately need those
partitions back. I am pretty sure the actual data is 100% intact.

TIA

 

[Svend Olaf Mikkelsen]

Don't ask how cos I'm not really sure, but something has clearly happened to
the MBR on my IBM deskstar 120GXP (61gigs official, about 57 in reality).

I had three partitions: One NTFS partition installed with WINXP (about
15gigs), one FAT32 (about 30gigs), and one FAT32 (exactly 10.9gigs). I know
the last one because I ran Norton Disk Doctor and that was the only
partition it could find. I knew it wouldn't help with NTFS, but I'm
surprised it missed the large FAT32 one. PM7 was no better either.

I guess if I could only recover the other FAT32 partition at least, I could
then rebuild the partition table to get back the NTFS one, or vice-versa.
There was no free space.

I've now installed WinXP on a spare disk, but I desperately need those
partitions back. I am pretty sure the actual data is 100% intact.

TIA

You can download Findpart at

http://inet.uni2.dk/~svolaf/utilities.htm

do:

findpart all fp.txt

and mail me the file fp.txt.

I suggest you do not do more attempts using NDD, since although it can
work in some cases, it can turn a simple case into a hopeless one.

 

[Sport Billy]

You can download Findpart at

http://inet.uni2.dk/~svolaf/utilities.htm

do:

findpart all fp.txt

and mail me the file fp.txt.

I suggest you do not do more attempts using NDD, since although it can
work in some cases, it can turn a simple case into a hopeless one.

This guy is a lifesaver! I urge everyone to download his util (or at least
bookmark his page), just in case. Some companies charge hundreds for what
this little thing does!

While I'm here, anyone know how to merge two outlook express email folders
together? I've done more tonight than just fire off 'help' requests, and
I'll lose it all when I go back to my regular set-up. Not complaining too
much though!

 

[Rod Speed]

anyone know how to merge two outlook express email folders together?

Just import the smaller one into the large one using OE itself.

In other words run the OE that uses the
larger set, import from the other OE install.

I've done more tonight than just fire off 'help' requests,
and I'll lose it all when I go back to my regular set-up.

Yeah, its easy to just import that temporary install tho.