| Author | Message | ||
     Jeremy Armstrong |
Hi, Norton AV tried to repair a virus and seems to have corrupted the boot partion of my raid 0 (stripe) dual 80gb setup. Can Winhex help me recover the partition? I don't see how I could load windows onto it and still recover the original. I don't have a way to load the drives into another computer;the raid controller is an integrated Promise Fastrak 100. I have been looking but I don't see that Winhex can be run from dos. Actually i can't even find the system requirements... Oh yeah. its a Win98se fat32 system Thanks Jeremy Armstrong | ||
| Stefan Fleischmann (Admin) |
As seen below the caption line on the WinHex main web page, WinHex can be run under practically any version of Windows. If you can't load the drives into another computer B and cannot install a bootable other hard disk in this computer A, you could still use B to produce a bootable Windows CD (with Bart's PE Builder and the WinHex plug-in for PE from here and boot up A with the CD and run WinHex from that CD. WinHex can then help you recover the partition, if you know what needs to be fixed. | ||
| Jeremy Armstrong |
I didn't see that there, sorry! I realized I had an old hard drive sitting in the drawer which still had windows loaded on it, installed it and have just installed winhex. Now the hard part, learn what i need to fix. Perhaps you could point me in the right direction. | ||
| Jeremy Armstrong |
Ok I've got to go to work. What I have so far is that I can access the damaged array and can recover my files (worst case) but I'm seeing 3 partitions when there should only be 2. If anyone has a link to a "how to" repair the MBR/partition info or a utility that will do it automatically that be great. I read that there is a Recover lost partitions option but I couldn't find it. RTFM is next. At least I can recover the last data I didn't back up (my bad) which is what I was worried about but I'll try to recover the partition itself. A good learning experience  Thanks for any and all help! (I need it{grin}) Jeremy | ||
| Stefan Fleischmann (Admin) |
> I read that there is a Recover lost partitions option > but I couldn't find it. If a lost partition is not auto-detected by WinHex: Tools | Disk Tools | Scan For Lost Partition (slow) or if you know where the boot sector is: Tools | Disk Tools | Interpret As Partition Start (immediate effect) | ||
| Jeremy Armstrong |
WinHex found 10 partitions. There were only ever 2 loaded. the fat table seems ok,at least scandisk didn't 'see' anything wrong. I just need to figure out the MBR/partition table now, its definitely corrupt but I'm not versed in what it should be. The fortune teller says there's more reading in my future I'm still reading some of the links on fat32. Could you point me to the PDF manual I read about. It seems I can't find that either and it was not part of the zip I downloaded. I would like to download that also. Thanks very much. Jeremy | ||
| Stefan Fleischmann (Admin) |
The WinHex user manual? It's right on the WinHex main web page. If you don't see the link, you can simply search for it. Press Ctrl+F in your browser, type "manual", then hit Enter. | ||
| Jeremy Armstrong |
I feel like an idiot, I knew it was going to be in plain site... Thanks | ||
| Jeremy Armstrong |
I have an older 40GB drive that was ghosted to my now defunct drive. The new drive was later partition magic'd to 2 new larger sizes (~120Gb/40Gb). Luckily I saved the 40Gb as a backup. Is my easiest "fix" to copy the MBR from the 'good' drive to the defunct drive? I realize the partiton table would be different but In my reading it looks like the MBR should be the same. Thanks! Jeremy | ||
| Stefan Fleischmann (Admin) |
> Is my easiest "fix" to copy the MBR from the 'good' > drive to the defunct drive? Sorry, I cannot give detailed general PC troubleshooting or damage repair advice here because I cannot judge each individual scenario from remote and also cannot afford spending the time to review and think about each case carefully. This support forum is primarily meant to support our customers if they have questions about our software products. > I realize the partiton table would be different but > In my reading it looks like the MBR should be the same. Can't be true, as the partition table is part of the MBR. | ||
| Jeremy Armstrong |
Ahh, I got the wrong impression from the forum title. I'm off to find a proper forum for my questions then. Thanks Stefan, you helped get the ball rolling and I can appreciate that |