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poster wrote:
On Jun 6, 8:46 am, "Ben Myers" wrote: "poster" wrote in ... played with numbers a bit in nde and voila partition data showed up now how do you go about copying it to another place- when you edit/ mark the folder it copies just the list of files in it?(NortonDisk Editor clipboard is only 4KB) If you are referring to a Norton Disk Editor feature, you probably should start a new thread or post in a Norton forum. http://community.norton.com/norton/board?board.id=other If not, I suggest you back up the existing partition table, then write the new data to it, restart the computer and see if you have access to the missing files and folders. Ben ok but does anyone know how does norton d.e. access files with advanced recoverz mode-is it using fat tables?Also confirm please-boot sector info that needs to be input in sector 63 is for the first partition and not for the hard disk as a whole No - but http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk might be of some help. - bill |
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ok but does anyone know how does norton d.e. access files with advanced recoverz mode-is it using fat tables?Also confirm please-boot sector info that needs to be input in sector 63 is for the first partition and not for the hard disk as a whole I'm very fimilar with Norton Disk Edit, it defaults to read only you have to turn editing on (it's a safety feature). Your boot sector or MBR is on the first sector of the hard drive and holds all of your partition information not just the first one. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master_boot_record Haven't followed the entire thread, but play around with Disk Edit, you can't do any harm, until you change it's config to allow edits. It's how I learned how to use it. - I recovered one of my hard drives with it a long time ago and swear by it now - but it took a lot of playing around to find the problem. -- Kind of a sad picture, that speaks volumes http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3605/...a463fdca_o.jpg |
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deleted mbr,boot sector
Jurjen Oskam wrote:
On 2009-06-17, wrote: Your boot sector or MBR is on the first sector of the hard drive and holds all of your partition information not just the first one. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master_boot_record The MBR doesn't hold all of the partition information. There's only room for four partition table entries in the MBR. To be able to create more partitions, a partition table entry in the main MBR can be set to type "Extended" and point to a section of the disk where *another* MBR is located. That other MBR has one partition table entry describing a partition (called an "extended partition" by the OS) and optionally another partition table entry of type "Extended" pointing to yet another MBR, and so on. In short: almost all information about any extended partitions *isn't* stored in the main MBR. Wow, news to me, never heard of the EBR before, but in my defense it's still located on the first sector http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extended_boot_record (good info at this link) As for recovering my hard drive I should mention that I had run DISKMAP.EXE from the NT resource kit, something I do just in case. So I had the numbers to rebuild my partitions (extended as well), The OP is going to have a bit more math to do than I did, Disk Edit will help on this but it's a rough ride. -- Kind of a sad picture, that speaks volumes http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3605/...a463fdca_o.jpg |
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