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hello,
i have a win98 40gb system, it was working well, when it got a virus on the boot portion ( i am not sure if it is in mbr or boot sector) but i use AVG so it got detected and requested me to scan through a floppy disk boot, so i did. after scanning 100,000 plus file and found no infection, i decided to check the restoration tool of AVG, i clicked on the boot sector and restore all, after that the hdd would not boot anymore, i cannot even see the contents of the drive or the data, but it seems to be there, what i did is to check the harddisk on a working winxp system and it seems that the data is still inside but i cannot view them.
I have also tried using fdisk /mbr, it did not work.Please help, i need the data on my hdd thanks.
"I have also tried using fdisk /mbr, it did not work."
What did it *DO*?
If at first you don't succeed, you're about average.M2
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Mechanix2Go
I have tried it several times, and it justs moves into something like this.
C: fdisk /mbr
c:
And it justs sit there and when i try to boot it still the same cannot boot.
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am not sure if this is because i did a restore when the backup list has nothing in it..i used AVG floppy rescue disk's restore all it will restore track 0, boot sector,and MBR...is there hope?
thanks...
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It's normal for fdisk /mbr to just return the prompt with no msg.
Now try booting on a floppy of the same version, and:
sys c:
You should get a msg like:
system transferred
If at first you don't succeed, you're about average.M2
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hello M2,
thanks, i tried it, yes it boots but i still cannot the view the files i have there are no files seen, yet when i put it into winxp, the hdd seems occupied with my files but no files are viewable there is no directory ....please help.
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run fdisk-yes to large disk support- option #4- post resaults.
Did you only have 1 partition or more ?[ i clicked on the boot sector and restore all] did you change the partitions after you first made the restore floppy ?
[yes it boots] the hdd boots ? But you can not see any files within windows ??
What happens if you boot into dos, any files seen ?Something seem not to add up, try being more precice.
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TopFarmer,
thanks for the feedback,
< run fdisk-yes to large disk support- option #4- post resaults.
Did you only have 1 partition or more ?>yes i have done this, but the result is incorrect, because i only have one partition and fdisk shows that i have split it into two (primary-50%), but the other drive is not seen. very weird.
< [ i clicked on the boot sector and restore all] did you change the partitions after you first made the restore floppy ?> nope i did not do any changes with the partition.< [yes it boots] the hdd boots ? But you can not see any files within windows ??
What happens if you boot into dos, any files seen ?>
No files seen, file directory structure may have been corrupted or lost.
Something seem not to add up, try being more precice.
hope this helps.
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If the partition table is messed up that will make all sorts of problems.
1st download "Mbrwork" - extract the files to a blank ,formated floppy. Boot with a bootable floppy into dos- put in the Mbrwork floppy and at A: type in Mbrwork - select option #1 to back up first track (MBR)- then exit.
Next use "Testdisk" hopefuly it will correct the partition table, with out first zeroing the data.
Hopefuly the comp will then work correct.
When comp is up and running rerun Mbrwork and save. The saved file contains the MBR.MBRWORK
http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/utilities.htmlTestdisk, NOTE- read the how to use first !
http://www.cgsecurity.org/index.html?testdisk.html
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hello TopFarmer,
thanks for the feedback.
I have tried to use testdisk and checked the partition, but it only detects the partition of 50% not the original one.i have tried to do the mbr fix in testdisk, still not able to.
i am looking for a data recovery tool that will be able to retrieve the data if i cannot restore the partition table. i have tried getdataback, and i was able to read the needed data, but i was able to use demo version and it will not allow me to copy or back it up, do you know of such caliber data recovery tool that is free?
thanks,
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try
http://pcinspector.de/file_recovery/uk/welcome.htmpost back ,would like to know if it works.
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