mbr for 40G harddrive?

Is there anywhere to get an mbr for a 40G hard drive using win98? (besides
getting another one and setting it up).

"*selah*" wrote in
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Is there anywhere to get an mbr for a 40G hard drive using win98?

They arent that specific to the size of the drive.

(besides getting another one and setting it up).

If you dont care about losing the data on the drive, wipe the
existing boot sector with something like clearhdd and win98
will recreate it when you partition it and format it.

"*selah*" wrote:

Is there anywhere to get an mbr for a 40G hard drive using win98? (besides
getting another one and setting it up).

Please state the purpose you need that MBR for. If to recover a drive that lost
its partition table or self boot ability, then the answer is yes, there is.

Regards, Zvi
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I had a problem with a trojan on a maxtor 40G drive. . After supposedly
getting rid of it with avg I wasn't able to use winword 97. I wiped out the
old mbr (and, I think, the partition table) and replaced it with the mbr,
etc. of a 2.5G win98 drive. Now fdisk is only finding 2.5G on the 40G drive
(and only some of the files are available, plus, it won't boot.)

Thanks,

Ben

"Zvi Netiv" wrote in message
...
"*selah*" wrote:

Is there anywhere to get an mbr for a 40G hard drive using win98?
(besides
getting another one and setting it up).

Please state the purpose you need that MBR for. If to recover a drive
that lost
its partition table or self boot ability, then the answer is yes, there
is.

Regards, Zvi
--
NetZ Computing Ltd. ISRAEL www.invircible.com www.ivi.co.il (Hebrew)
InVircible Virus Defense Solutions, ResQ and Data Recovery Utilities

On Fri, 13 May 2005 04:15:30 -0400, "*selah*"
wrote:

I had a problem with a trojan on a maxtor 40G drive. . After supposedly
getting rid of it with avg I wasn't able to use winword 97. I wiped out the
old mbr (and, I think, the partition table) and replaced it with the mbr,
etc. of a 2.5G win98 drive. Now fdisk is only finding 2.5G on the 40G drive
(and only some of the files are available, plus, it won't boot.)

Why not use Windows Setup to partition it over again. Just delete any
partitions you have and tell Windows installation to create a new
partition.

fdisk /mbr will restore your original MBR.

Regards,
Yaroslav.
www.datarecoveryindex.com

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fdisk /mbr will restore your original MBR.

But wont do anything about the wrong partition table.

Clueless. He trashed his partition table by copying it from a smaller drive.

The OP should zero the bad MBR and run data recovery software.

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fdisk /mbr will restore your original MBR.

Regards,
Yaroslav.
www.datarecoveryindex.com

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fdisk /mbr will restore your original MBR.

Clueless.


Regards,
Yaroslav.
www.datarecoveryindex.com

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regards

Sachin