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data loss ?
Name: Max Date: October 21, 2002 at 14:33:07 Pacific OS: win2000 CPU/Ram: amd/512
Comment:
I have a 40gb ibm deskstar drive that has info on it it came from a system that had a bios 32gb limit it is partitioned ntsf it was a nonbootable data and now the partition shows active when i run fdisk i suspect damage to MBR and or Bios paramater boot block can i retrive this data and how ? email me at maxcyrus@netzero.net or maxwork40@hotmail.com thanks
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