corrupting your partition table...

[stringbeans]

and having to edit it manually to fix it..

i suck at today

[ebbomega]

Partition Magic whut?

[stringbeans]

hey maybe you can help

i basically had 2 partitions on my 40gig hd..

c drive 5.7 gigs NTFS
h drive 5.7 gigs FAT32

i restored my h drive, but my c drive still isnt working properly...

heres info on my drives...

the ntfs drive...
systemid: 7 (in hex)
start C/H/S: 0 1 1
end C/H/S: 731 254 63
size: 11759617

the fat32 drive...
systemid: b (in hex)
start C/H/S: 4110 1 1
end C/H/S: 4841 254 63
size: 11759517

i put this into the partition table manually, and i got the h: drive to be recognized, but the c drive is still an unrecognized partition... any tips?

[rawb]

os? (stupid5characters)

[crookedking]

Originally Posted by ebbomega

Partition Magic whut?

i've been trying to remember where that is from. help me to remember Dave.

[stringbeans]

xp pro

[rawb]

i've used gpart on a *nix os which recreates a partition table for a drive based on the drive information.

for windows, you can boot into the recovery console with an xp cd, and then run the mbr fixer. i believe the commend is 'fix mbr' or something like that. theres a help comamnd that lists the available commands.

[stringbeans]

yeah ive tried the fixmbr command in the recovery console.. it doesnt do anything

ive actually found some programs that would restore my partitions but i'd have to pay for the full versions.. and im a cheapass

[stringbeans]

update:

im zero'ing my drive right now :(

[Ree Fresh]

Originally Posted by stringbeans

xp pro

pro 6???

[neoh]

grab the data off the unrecoverable partition (with some sort of recovering software - I choose getdataback.) and 0 it.

too many things to name to try out. It should be fixable, it's a pain in the ass, but fixable.

- neoh