Re: question about MBR

If you don't mind wiping the disk, delete the partition(s) and then create a
new one. Formatting won't clear up MBR errors. You probably also have
the partition table editor, PTEdit in your PM directory sub tree. If so, you can use
that to zero out all MBR entries. That (in effect) wipes the disk, as far as most
software is concerned. Just make sure you have selected the correct disk.


"sgopus" <sgopus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:C670B80C-E36A-4BAE-8520-82EE957CA505@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I had an HD experience a controller failure, and it's not that old of a
drive, less than a year.
I was able to recover the drive, but am seeing some wierd issues with it.
Windows sees it just fine, Partition Magic however says it's bad, and won't
give me access to tools for further recovery, I think the MBR has gotten
toasted.
PM says the drive has partitions extending into other partitions, but it's
one big partition 300 Gig, I use it for backups.
I've formatted the entire drive, using disk management within windows, I
thought that would fix the issues, nope.
PM still says it's bad, so how can I go about fixing the MBR and partition
errors?
I'm getting another external USB drive for backups, and I will move all info
off the old drive and attempt another chkdsk and format, so any further
suggestions are welcome.


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