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more PC help please
25. May 2009 at 17:05

I know there are plenty of PC boffins on OOF so here we go;

My main 500gb Vista64 Hard drive is bust Cry

Won't boot (i've patched up an old 20gb with XP to get online)

Can't see it in explorer but can in 'disk management'.

Tried to run recovery suite from vista install disk but that can't fix it.

Apparently the partition table is corrupt possibly due to screwed up MBR Undecided

lots of websites promising to fix this but just wondered if you OOFers had some advice and hopefully some freeware like "diskpatch" or "iRecover" ?

thanks

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Welung666 Omega Lord Offline Posts: 9768 West Midlands Gender: Drives: 99 2.5 saloon Tractor	Re: more PC help please Reply #1 - 25. May 2009 at 17:18 Is it allocating a drive letter (I.E. D:/) in disk management? If it is try running fixmbr D: from a dos prompt (assuming D is the allocated drive letter).
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HerefordElite Omega Knight Offline Welcome to the Shire Posts: 1747 Hereford Gender: Drives: A6 Avant 2.5tdi Quattro Sport	Re: more PC help please Reply #2 - 25. May 2009 at 17:22 already tried 'fixmbr' sorry and said it completed the task but fixed nothing!
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KillerWatt Ex Member	Re: more PC help please Reply #3 - 25. May 2009 at 17:52 Run CHKDSK on it.
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cem Omega King Offline Posts: 13920 Ankara/Turkey Gender: Drives: 97 2.5 V6 Manual CD- Clio Sport	Re: more PC help please Reply #4 - 25. May 2009 at 18:42 Hi, search & try some free disk recovery program downloads from google.. hope that helps http://www.oo-software.com/home/en/download/current/oodiskrecovery/index.html
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Plomien Omega Knight Offline Rescue the beer and drink the maiden Posts: 1724 Swansea Gender: Drives: 2.5 V6 Tourer	Re: more PC help please Reply #5 - 25. May 2009 at 19:59 if you can see it in disk management try re assigning the drive letter. it should then show in your my computer. you can then transfer any files you need to dvd/ your 20gb disk and then format to 500gb disk
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HerefordElite

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Re: more PC help please
Reply #6 - 25. May 2009 at 22:45

Plomien wrote on 25. May 2009 at 19:59:

if you can see it in disk management try re assigning the drive letter. it should then show in your my computer.
you can then transfer any files you need to dvd/ your 20gb disk and then format to 500gb disk Thumbs Up!

can't rename drive (greyed out option Undecided

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interestingly the drive is split into 2 partitions of 811Gb & 259 Gb, strange as i set it up as a single partition of 500Gb !!!!!! Shocked

will try to google more software but so far all seems to be limited demo's unless you pay for full version Cry

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KillerWatt Ex Member	Re: more PC help please Reply #7 - 25. May 2009 at 22:56 I'll assume you ran CHKDSK as I suggested earlier, so check your PM as that obviously didn't fix it.
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Jimbob Global Moderator Admin Team Offline Third nipple removal completed succesfuly Posts: 20462 Chester / Flintshire Gender: Drives: 52 3.2 MV6 Estate & 98 3.0 MV6 Manual Estate	Re: more PC help please Reply #8 - 26. May 2009 at 06:07 I had an MBR failure once, and used 'Getdataback' sounds ideal in your case. It runs for an hour or 2, then gives you an explorer window so you can copy off what you need
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mathewst Omega Knight Offline Posts: 1499 Split, Croatia Gender: Drives: omega 2.2i 16v	Re: more PC help please Reply #9 - 26. May 2009 at 11:03 Does it report any bad sectors when running chkdsk? Probably you have some bad sectors on the boot section of the disk. Either that or you got some virus. The report you get is very strange, I guess you didnt do any compression to your hard drive?
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mathewst Omega Knight Offline Posts: 1499 Split, Croatia Gender: Drives: omega 2.2i 16v	Re: more PC help please Reply #10 - 26. May 2009 at 11:05 Also if you can Try reconnecting your 20gb as a main drive, and 500 gb as secondary.
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