Partition Hosed?

[FiOS Dave]

In an attempt to add a second drive to my system,
it damaged my partition, probably because I had the
jumper set to master instead of slave.
I tried to repair the master boot record using the
Vista disk, but I get an error message,
"Failed to save startup options."
I tried running RSTRUI.EXE /OFFLINE:C:\Windows,
but that didn't help either.
I thought that Vista kept a second copy of the partition info/
Master Boot Record, but I can't find out how to restore it.
Since this was a new setup, I haven't had a chance to back it up,
and would hate to lose all the customization I've done.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance,

Dave

 

[AJR]

You need to be explicit is describing what you were trying to accomplish.
"...In an attempt to add a second drive to my system,.." ? does'nt say much.

Regarding "...it damaged my partition, probably because I had the jumper
set to master instead of slave...." - setting the jumper to master vice
slave would have resulted in the drive not being recognized.

 

[FiOS Dave]

Hi Nigel,

Thanks for the link.
I just downloaded the file and will give it a try later.
It appears that it is only the MBR that got hosed, as all the data
appears to be OK. I did notice that after I added the second
drive, the system attempted to boot from it, rather than from
my original drive (which was still set as master.)
Possible, during the contention between drives, a write was
forced to the MBR on the original drive.
In any event, I certainly will be more careful when adding in
a second drive again! I have two "sleds" in my system, which makes
it easy for me to swap drives. I have a few smaller drives (120GB)
which I use for testing Ubuntu, or reverting to XP, NT 4.0, or
other systems, as I find it easier than setting up virtual drives.

I'll let you know how I do.

Thanks again,

Dave

 

[Andy]

Hi Nigel,

Thanks for the link.
I just downloaded the file and will give it a try later.
It appears that it is only the MBR that got hosed, as all the data
appears to be OK. I did notice that after I added the second
drive, the system attempted to boot from it, rather than from
my original drive (which was still set as master.)

Go into BIOS setup, and set Hard Disk Boot Priority or Hard Disk
Drives to boot from the correct drive.