| Author | Message | ||
     Torque27 (Torque27) |
Hi all, I have a disk that windows says is not formatted, but it does still have all my data on it. I used the free version of winhex to view the disk and confirm this. So I guessed that this is a MBR / FAT problem and purchased a copy of Winhex to be able to fix the MBR. So far I have not been able to get this to work using the templates. All the data seems to be correct to me (I have no experience in this at all). Please could someone give me some ideas of how to approach this problem. There is no 2nd copy of the partition table as I saw mentioned elsewhere in this forum. I found other partition tables further down on the disk but they are wrong (the number of sectors doesn't make sense). Please help! | ||
| Stefan Fleischmann (Admin) |
Sorry, I don't know how to help from remote. You need to check at least the partition table in the MBR and the boot sector of the partition and need to have knowledge of what values should be in there. | ||
| Jeremy Armstrong |
Hi Torque27, I've got the same problem and at about the same time as you got yours. Theres lots of good info in the links on the knowledge base here. http://www.x-ways.net/winhex/kb/index.html Whats your drive info, OS, and File system. I'm trying to recover a Fat32 drive running Win98SE thats on dual WD 80Gb drives Raid1=160Gb partioned to ~120/40. Perhaps we can help each other as we learn. I about to make my first try, just need to back up the partition first. |