From: Bill Morrow (penzance_at_icanect.net)
Date: Sat Aug 21 1999 - 02:47:28 EDT
when will the funeral be held..? :-)
Nicolas Bourbaki wrote:
> Thank you very much for your helpful suggestions. In
> my infinite stupidity and impatience, I restored the C
> drive but left D alone. This probably overwrote the
> MBR.
>
> Then I dug up an old copy of Partition Magic 3.0 from
> my days of messing with linux. It shows Partition 2 as
> Type Free Space.
>
> Ranish Partition Manager shows D to be Unused free
> space and the wizard would do as PM would, i.e.,
> create a new partition? It also says Boot sector
> doesn't have valid information.
>
> At this point, with the original MBR presumably gone,
> chances of self-data recovery are slim? Neither of the
> programs used have options to re-create partition or
> FAT that I could see.
>
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