Invalid Partition Table

[Ryan]

Hi


Does anyone know how to fix an invalid partition table. I
have tried fdisk and fdisk/mbr ect but nothing.

Also if i open partition magic the drive shows up as bad.
This drive is about 2 weeks old.

The drive has been used as a slave in another machine and
i think that is what may have caused the problem.

Any help is greatly appreciated

Thanks.

[Kent W. England [MVP]]

You can't use those 9x tools on an NT system. Boot to the XP CD, run the
Recovery Console, and run "fixmbr". I can't guarantee this will work,
but you likely need the partition type reset and the right partition set
active. A third-party tool might be able to fix this if the Recovery
Console cannot. Don't give up. Your data is still likely intact.

--
Kent W. England, Microsoft MVP for Windows


"Ryan" > wrote in
message ...
>
> Does anyone know how to fix an invalid partition table. I
> have tried fdisk and fdisk/mbr ect but nothing.
>
> Also if i open partition magic the drive shows up as bad.
> This drive is about 2 weeks old.
>
> The drive has been used as a slave in another machine and
> i think that is what may have caused the problem.
>
> Any help is greatly appreciated
>
> Thanks.