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editing the partition table or some other way to recover a partiti
I have a HDD that has crashed. It was running Windows XP Pro and only had 1
partition. The BIOS recognizes the drive and its geometry, the manufacturer's diagnostic tools report that the HDD has no errors. But the BIOS reports that no partitions are on the drive. I have done nothing to alter the HDD at this point. A friend of mine had a similar problem a couple of years ago and he solved it by editing the partition table because he remembered the exact way he partitioned the drive (but he doesn't remember what he used or how he did it - it's been a while). He had no data loss. I am thinking that doing the same would work in this situation since the HDD only has 1 partition and I have several other systems that I've configured the exact same way. Does anyone know how I can get the partition recogized by either editing the partition table or some other means. |
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editing the partition table or some other way to recover a partiti
"Nate" wrote in message ... I have a HDD that has crashed. It was running Windows XP Pro and only had 1 partition. The BIOS recognizes the drive and its geometry, the manufacturer's diagnostic tools report that the HDD has no errors. But the BIOS reports that no partitions are on the drive. I have done nothing to alter the HDD at this point. A friend of mine had a similar problem a couple of years ago and he solved it by editing the partition table because he remembered the exact way he partitioned the drive (but he doesn't remember what he used or how he did it - it's been a while). He had no data loss. I am thinking that doing the same would work in this situation since the HDD only has 1 partition and I have several other systems that I've configured the exact same way. Does anyone know how I can get the partition recogized by either editing the partition table or some other means. You could boot the machine with a Win98 boot disk from www.bootdisk.com, then edit the partition table with ptedit.exe from ftp://ftp.symantec.com/public/englis.../pq/utilities/. Alternatively, you could use RecoveryExpert from www.acronis.com to recover lost partitions. |
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