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Copying a partition made my HD unusable...? Would like to salvage the drive
I used a dos based utility to try to copy my c:\ partition to another
same-sized partition, and now my HD seems to be unusable. My machine wouldn't boot, I can't fdisk (it locks up or errors out with a very general error message), I can't install Win XP Pro (the setup program errors out when trying to do ANYTHING (create/delete partitions, install, etc)). What have I done to this drive? How can I repair/reformat/repartition/reset this drive so that I can use it again? I downloaded some WD diagnostic tools, and they report that the drive is healty on all tests, including a low level surface scan. There is a format/prepare utility in that package which also errors out. Please help! How do I "reset" this disk? (WD 120GB 8MB/7200) Thx, JM |
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wipe the mbr, for example with MBRtool (free) from our website.
MBRtool /WT0 /DSK:0 will do; will wipe track 0 on the first physical disk. - to wipe track zero on the second disk use MBRtool /WT0 /DSK:1 Kind regards, Joep -- D I Y D a t a R e c o v e r y . N L - Data & Disaster Recovery Tools http://www.diydatarecovery.nl http://www.diydatarecovery.com Please include previous correspondence! DiskPatch - MBR, Partition, boot sector repair and recovery. iRecover - FAT, FAT32 and NTFS data recovery. MBRtool - Freeware MBR backup and restore. CHK-Mate - automated CHK file analysis & recovery "Jeff McAhren" wrote in message om... I used a dos based utility to try to copy my c:\ partition to another same-sized partition, and now my HD seems to be unusable. My machine wouldn't boot, I can't fdisk (it locks up or errors out with a very general error message), I can't install Win XP Pro (the setup program errors out when trying to do ANYTHING (create/delete partitions, install, etc)). What have I done to this drive? How can I repair/reformat/repartition/reset this drive so that I can use it again? I downloaded some WD diagnostic tools, and they report that the drive is healty on all tests, including a low level surface scan. There is a format/prepare utility in that package which also errors out. Please help! How do I "reset" this disk? (WD 120GB 8MB/7200) Thx, JM |
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