telthenipper Posted January 21, 2002 Share Posted January 21, 2002 Hi Hi trying to fix my father in laws pc. He some how managed to corupt the Master Boot Record of his Windows ME partition, which has a lot of work on which he doesn't want to loose. I have tried to replace the mbr with fdisk/mbr command to no avail. I have also tried to fix it with bootmagic and partition magic but this hasn't worked either. Under partition magic the partition is listed as 'type 44 hex' when it should be fat 32. I have now got to the stage of thinking that I'm not going to fix it, but would like to be able to get into the partition to retrive the data before I repartition the hdd and format it. Everything I've tried will not enable me to do this as it isn't recongonised by any OS and isn't even assigned a drive letter. Can anybody please help in either suggesting a way to fix the partition or recommending some software that will enable me to get into the partition and retriving his valuable data? You will have my undying thanks as I'm pulling my hair out!!! Terry Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaulNC Posted January 23, 2002 Share Posted January 23, 2002 Just a WAG, but could the damage have been done by infection? If so, did he have rescue disks that would have the original mbr? Just offering possible options. Hope it helps. -Paulnc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redmak Administrators Posted January 23, 2002 Administrators Share Posted January 23, 2002 Maybe this will help http://home.arcor.de/christian_grau/rescue/index.html Haven't tried it myself but I know someone who got all his data back because of this piece of software Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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