Re: Fixboot damaged my partition table. Help?

I had assumed the drive had not failed since I was able to see/access/copy
all files from both partitions using Knoppix before running FIXBOOT. Is this
an incorrect interpretation? I'll try finding diagnostics from the
manufacturer to verify my assumption. So, I should have pressed CTRL-C while
fixboot was running? Sounds dangerous to me. Fixboot didn't prompt or pause
at any point to sugest that I could abort or cancel. Regardless, I'm still
stuck with a bum partition.

- Bill

"Dave Patrick" wrote:

> It sounds like your drive failed. Your first step should have been to use a
> disk diagnostic tool from the manufacturer. When FIXBOOT reported that it
> could not determine the partition type you probably should have aborted. One
> of the drive recovery services may be able to recover your data.
>
> --
> Regards,
>
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> "Bill Lakenan" wrote:
> | I have a Sony VAIO laptop running WinXP. It recently started
> producing
> | a blue screen at boot up. The STOP code indicated a drive problem. I
> used a
> | Knoppix CD to boot up and view both NTFS paritions (C:, D:) and all files
> on
> | the only drive in the laptop. Based on this, I assumed the drive was
> | phsycally OK, but there was problems with the MBR, partition table or
> | similar. I used the XP install CD to run FIXBOOT from the recovery
> console.
> | This is where my big problem occurred...
> | FIXBOOT reported that it could not determine the partition type and
> | that it would be assuming a FAT partition. The next time I used the
> Knoppix
> | CD to inspect the drive, the first partition (what was C:) showed a bunch
> of
> | files with filename and content of gibberish. This first partiion was
> also
> | misted as roughly 10MB in size. The other partion (what was D:) was fine
> | and showed the files/folders that existied before I ran into problems.
> | After doing some reasearch on various newsgroups, it seems like FIXBOOT
> has
> | caused similar problems for other folks.
> | So here's my quesiton... Has anyone fixed this problem before? I'm
> | reluctant to try the obvious utilities such as FIXMBR and/or CHKDSK as it
> was
> | an MS recover utility that caused this problem in the first place. A
> | detailed step-by-step description would be appreciated as I know that one
> | wrong step might render by drive completely inrecoverable. Thanks in
> | advance...
> |
> | - Bill
>
>
>
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