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Steve N.
Now this is cool and I wonder why MS doen't have this doc'd or KB'd, at
least nowhere I can find and I'm pretty damn good at finding stuff.
One of my co-workers accidentally deleted the partition on the wrong
drive during a drive swapping frenzy. It was a user's drive full of data
and he literally turned grey when he discovered what he'd done. We spent
a good hour or more downloading and trying several so-called partition
recovery utils (none of which worked, BTW) and finally on a whim another
co-worker decided to try fixboot from Recovery Console and it worked
perfectly!
I know it does make sense because as opposed to fixmbr and fdisk /mbr,
fixboot re-writes the partition table in the MBR not just the boot code,
but this is specifically _not_ documented as a possible method to
recover a deleted partition entry. There's skatey-eight software
companies out there peddling utilities for this sort of thing that don't
even work. Fully functional free trial, my eye. Save your money folks.
Try native system tools first.
Steve N.
least nowhere I can find and I'm pretty damn good at finding stuff.
One of my co-workers accidentally deleted the partition on the wrong
drive during a drive swapping frenzy. It was a user's drive full of data
and he literally turned grey when he discovered what he'd done. We spent
a good hour or more downloading and trying several so-called partition
recovery utils (none of which worked, BTW) and finally on a whim another
co-worker decided to try fixboot from Recovery Console and it worked
perfectly!
I know it does make sense because as opposed to fixmbr and fdisk /mbr,
fixboot re-writes the partition table in the MBR not just the boot code,
but this is specifically _not_ documented as a possible method to
recover a deleted partition entry. There's skatey-eight software
companies out there peddling utilities for this sort of thing that don't
even work. Fully functional free trial, my eye. Save your money folks.
Try native system tools first.
Steve N.