Re: MBR Partition Table

From: Hawaiiantim (anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 07/19/04 

Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2004 14:06:52 -0700

Thanks Ill try and let you know!
>-----Original Message-----
>Ouch, guess that's why some call it Partition Tragic.
You can rebuild
>the MBR by using dos and typing FDISK /MBR or using the
Recovery Console
>on the Windows XP CD and typing FIXMBR. There may also
be a utility in
>PM that allows you to rebuild the MBR.
>
>----
>Nathan McNulty
>
>
>HawaiianTim wrote:
>> When using Partition Magic to create a new fat32
Partition
>> in my usb external drive X: (which is ntfs) it locked
up.
>> I let it run overnight to see if it would fix itself
but
>> finaly had to cancel the operation. P.M. shows critical
>> error #46 seek error, also error #7 user canceled
>> operation pop-up. Windows sees the drive on my computer
as
>> raw. Command prompt will not do chkdsk or scandisk on
that
>> drive,Active unerase.exe from "Active" reads the files
in
>> dos fine. I could probably copy to another location and
>> save data but have not tried yet. It seems that my
problem
>> is the MBR Partition Table not in sequential order. can
>> any one tell me a way to fix, and if I format the drive
>> Will active unerase still be able to read. These are
all
>> fairly new procedures for me. Thanks; Tim
>.
>

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