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Warning This command can damage your partition table if a virus is present or if a hardware problem exists. If you use this command, you may create inaccessible partitions.
We recommend that you run antivirus software before you use this command. We also recommend that you backup your data before you use this command. I'll post something tomorrow about any other last ditch effort but I didn't find anything previously regarding fixing an unreadable disc especially one that isn't really unreadable. I can't Rebuild the MBR, it won't really allow me to do anything at all to the drive itself. All options are grayed out when I right click the Disk, and the partition.
Hope to hear back from you tomorrow. I'll try to make the disk readable with my recovery cd, at least. Thanks again for all your help! I haven't given up on this but have not had luck trying to write to the very beginning of a drive without destroying the partition table. Something we don't want. It looks like I won't get back to it this weekend. I have a couple hours tomorrow morning and will test a few more things. If you get a chance boot from Parted Magic one more time and verify that testdisk doesn't even list the HD after hitting Create.
I want to know if that was a fluke or a permanent situation. Sunglow , Feb 20, I'm getting back to this tonight. I did look at it this morning and narrowed things down a bit but am still having problems backing up the partition table to a file, so I will have to experiment a bit more.
I'm going on the premise that something got damaged in the MBR or bootsector of the drive which is keeping various programs from reading the drive.
That partition Wizard could find the old partitions and get a file listing out of them seems to indicate they are viable but something has to be fixed at the very beginning of the drive without damaging the partition table which is also at the beginning of the drive.
Give me one more day to test the options. If you don't know post the model number of laptop so I can check and see if that changes the options. Sunglow , Feb 21, Ok,I found a program that should work to back up your partition table and MBR. That would allow us to experiment with the current MBR and partition table without worry.
The main problem I have with testing is that I can't duplicate the "bad" disk error. So no guarantees on whether or not we will be able to rebuild the partition table but we will have a backup that should work unless the disc is completely unwritable.
Any size will do. Dollar stores might have little mb ones that nobody wants. You will need to download Win98boot. You will need to download MBRtool and install it. In the Browse to files box locate your unzipped Win98boot folder. Click Start. You want to tick the third option to extract the files to the root of the drive and select the drive letter for your USB flash drive.
Click the Go button and when finished close the window. Now try and boot the laptop from the USB flash drive. Type 2 and hit enter. You should see a confirmation message about two files being written, so hit any key to get back to the 6 options. Type 3 and hit enter. Hit Esc to quit. Shut down. You should have two MBR and two Track0 files- two with.
These copies on the desktop are for safe keeping in case something happens to the ones on the USB drive. If you get through that then we can try to fix the problem with accessing your files.
I think deleting the current partition table once it is backed up should remove the "bad disk" message and allow a new partition table to be built. If it doesn't then we will rebuild the MBR as well. It is a bit complicated but worth having the backups otherwise one problem and the information is gone, probably for good. Please let me know if you have any problems. No matter what happens with these and the future steps dealing with the MBR and partition table we will not be dealing with the parts of the HD that actually contain your files.
So using a USB enclosure or cable and recovery software will still be an option for trying to copy files to another HD. Message "Operating System not found" appears at boot time. Unfortunately I have not created recovery media too bad. First I simply tried to recreate those partitions through Partition Wizard, but upon restart, the disk continues to be shown as "bad disk", so it had no real effect. Restarted with Partition Wizard, but still it shows "bad disk". Now I'm not sure what I could try to solve this.
Do you have further advise? My main intent is to do reenable the system, or do at least a system recovery from the recovery partition Not really! It's just a way how your operating system protects itself due to some damages. You can repair it and get it normal easily. Download Win Download Mac. David Darlington. Download Now Download Now.
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