[TrashMan]

I'm a bit lost as far as how MaxBlast woks...it created a diskette with lots of bat and exe files on it..

I realise I havew to reboot the PC from the floppy, but I'm currently trying to find some documentation on what those exe files do so I don't screw things up even more....

b.t.w.  Magic Recovery tool doesn't seem to do the trick...

[TrashMan]

Ok people, I need help!

I used Testdisk 6.3 and after some searching it found the missing partition, along with all the folders and files!!!

However, I didn't repair it yet, since I get a confusing message and I don't want to screw it up by selecti g the wrong option..

so here it goes.

I start Testdisk and select my smaller HDD and start analyzing the partition.
It finds 1 FAT 32 partition and I make a deep search in that one.

What it find is hte following:

D   FAT32
D   FAT32 LBA    [NEBULA]   24.6 GB
*   HPFS-NTFS                      5.1 GB


Nebula is the 24GB missing partition so I select it and Write Partition to disk

I get the following message:

Sectors are not indentical. A valid NTFS Boot sector must be present in order to acess any data.

I get 4 options Dump, Backup BS( Copy backup Boot sector over boot sector) , Rebuild BS and Quit.

If I select rebuild I get extrapolated BS and current BS are different and I get choices to either Write or Quit...

anyone have a clse what would be the right thing to do?
NOTE - the 5BG partition where the OS used to be in formatted and empty -  WIn XP is now m+on my other HDD.

[futureshock]

HI its a few days since i used testdisk. for your problem there is an example in the helpfiles. unfortunately i don`t remember if they are included or if i read them on the website. if they are included they are under /usr/share/doc/testdisk otherwise there should be a link to the website in the readme.

HTH

[TrashMan]

I found something similar...

I'll prolyl give it a try....keep your fingers crossed!

[SadisticSid]

Right, you need to select backup BS first. This makes sure you can go back to the old one if the extrapolated boot sector it creates does not work. After this, choose rebuild BS and choose Write when it prompts you. You shouldn't need to use the backup, as it'll have a decent chance of working. Hopefully you'll be able to use the partition after this.

[TrashMan]

You sure about that? I jsut e-mail the guy who wrote hte program for help..LOL

Aftert I backed up the BS and rebooted the D: was acesabel with al lthe fiels in it...the thing is - that's the 5 GB old windows partittion, the F: is still mising..

I'll wait a bit before I try rebuilding the BS and stuff