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gdonovan YaBB Administrator Offline Infernal Collector Posts: 2361	Re: Data recovery help needed Reply #15 - 25.08.08 at 03:48:14 gtxe wrote on 24.08.08 at 16:14:05: fdisk /mbr perhaps this is what you are looking for edit: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/69013/EN-US/ No dice. RAID setup remember?
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Re: Data recovery help needed
Reply #16 - 25.08.08 at 03:51:07

EDR Commander can see the partitions, repairing the MBR made no difference.

To be safe I ordered a new PATA hard drive, when it comes in I'll Fdisk it and format and use EDR to copy the partitions over to the new drive.

Once I make sure my data is secure I'll blow away the original drives and reinstall XP. I'm not going to run the RAID setup again, I'll just go to external storage with automatic backup.

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IG88 Full Member Offline Posts: 209 Australia Gender:	Re: Data recovery help needed Reply #17 - 25.08.08 at 11:42:27 if repair install won`t work install another copy of windows side by side on the same disk different directory or in the same directory replacing the original install it will boot and the data will be intact
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Re: Data recovery help needed
Reply #18 - 25.08.08 at 11:55:46

IG88 wrote on 25.08.08 at 11:42:27:

if repair install won`t work

install another copy of windows side by side on the same disk different directory or in the same directory replacing the original install
it will boot and the data will be intact

Making writes to a disk where you are trying to recover data is a real bad idea if you want your data back.

Very easy to lose eveything.

I'd perfer to play it safe, over 10 years of assorted files plus other critical personal data at stake.

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IG88 Full Member Offline Posts: 209 Australia Gender:	Re: Data recovery help needed Reply #19 - 25.08.08 at 12:22:34 personally never had a problem doing that unless drive faulty or partitions are corrupted alot of those MBR tools don`t do much good , tried alot of them yeah safer using a good recovery program
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sigtau Junior Member Offline I'm Obsessed with 3Dfx!!! Posts: 86 Houston, TX USA Gender:	Re: Data recovery help needed Reply #20 - 25.08.08 at 18:24:16 When you fixed the mbr at the recovery console, did you also run "fixboot"? I nuked the mbr on my Vista partition when I was messing around with installing OSX. I had to run both "fixmbr" and "fixboot" to get everything working again. It might be worth a shot if you haven't tried it yet.
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gtxe Junior Member Offline v56k user Posts: 54 germany Gender:	Re: Data recovery help needed Reply #21 - 25.08.08 at 20:12:59 gdonovan wrote on 25.08.08 at 03:48:14: ... RAID setup remember? In mirrored RAID each drive should be the same as a single drive. But I might be wrong.
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Re: Data recovery help needed
Reply #22 - 26.08.08 at 01:11:37

As FalconFly pointed out it's probably not the MBR. If it really was there would not be such a huge problem at all.

I would recommend imaging the disk first before you use recovery tools on it. Recovery tools can fix it, but can also cause more damage. Better is to use the 'dd' command (Google for 'dd', if you're not experienced with Linux be care full and read it twice) in Linux and make a 1:1 copy of the disk to a spare drive. Use the spare drive to try recovery programs. If you or the program screw up you can always create a new copy from the original disk

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jandarsun8 God Member Offline Posts: 712 Minneapolis, MN Gender:	Re: Data recovery help needed Reply #23 - 26.08.08 at 01:51:54 The two programs I use for data recovery is EZ recovery which was mentioned before and Active Un-delete which helped me recover files from a software Raid-5 setup. Ontracks EZ recovery should work ok I would think. I've only got Ver 6 but PM me if you want to try it out. Good luck Jand
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paulpsomiadis God Member Offline -=3Dfx still rox!=- Posts: 2011 Newcastle U.K. Gender:	Re: Data recovery help needed Reply #24 - 27.08.08 at 00:38:50 @Gary - did you try testdisk?
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Re: Data recovery help needed
Reply #25 - 27.08.08 at 11:38:21

paulpsomiadis wrote on 27.08.08 at 00:38:50:

@Gary - did you try testdisk? Huh

I did not try that.

ERD Commander was able to locate the partitions so I'm content to wait for the new drive to come in before proceeding. If ERD copies everything over to the new drive and I can access the files then all will be good (I can always reload XP, no big woop)

If it doesn't work with either mirrored drive then I'll try something else.

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paulpsomiadis God Member Offline -=3Dfx still rox!=- Posts: 2011 Newcastle U.K. Gender:	Re: Data recovery help needed Reply #26 - 28.08.08 at 19:02:32 testdisk should be able to fully rebuild the MBR. Best thing would be to wait till you have a backup of the partitions "just in case" - then give testdisk a go.
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gamma742 God Member Offline 3Dfx Gamer Posts: 1668 San Diego, CA USA Gender:	Re: Data recovery help needed Reply #27 - 28.08.08 at 20:03:56 Quote: ERD Commander was able to locate the partitions so I'm content to wait for the new drive to come in before proceeding. If ERD copies everything over to the new drive and I can access the files then all will be good (I can always reload XP, no big woop) Sound promising.. Good Luck my Friend.
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gdonovan YaBB Administrator Offline Infernal Collector Posts: 2361	Re: Data recovery help needed Reply #28 - 03.09.08 at 02:31:19 Looks like ERD commander is doing it's thing- I installed and formatted an IDE drive and the program is moving my files over! I can clearly see the file directorys and names as they are copied over, life is good.
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gdonovan YaBB Administrator Offline Infernal Collector Posts: 2361	Re: Data recovery help needed Reply #29 - 03.09.08 at 03:59:09 SUCCESS!!!!!!!
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