I have a maxtor 250Gb, fat32 that windows xp corrupted ( according to the tech support at maxtor - this is what windows xp does...Remind me why do we use windows again...?)
Anyway, They say that, according to the installation manual they "strongly recommend to format these drives immediately as ntfs" Well, I have purchased close to 20 of these drives in the last year for many of my users. One of them, I guess, forgot to read the stinking manual.
Using diskprobe, I've been able to see that the disk configuration information has been zeroed out. I've been able to put back information about the starting and ending head, cylinders, and sectors, and even the system ID. What I don't know how to do is to put back the "Signature, Starting offset, Partition length, starting sector and partition number.
Do you know of a good recovery, diagnostic tool that would allow me to manipulate the disk configuration information? Would you also be able to recommend a data restoration service here in town or in Canada?
Thanks in advance. Rafael.
____________________ J. Rafael S�nchez Systems Administrator
Itres Research Limited
(P) 403.250.9944
(F) 403.250.9916 ____________________
Have a look at Spinrite version 6, just released. I've used spinrite since the first version, and if a drive can spin up, it can usually fix it. You'll find it at http://www.grc.com
Steve Gibson writes all his code in assembler, so it's tight, fast, and usually fits on a floppy, it's so small. It's OS independent, too, so it doesn't matter if the drive in question has linux or windows or whatever on it. It is the only product I've ever used for doing a real low-level format, or to recover bad sectors reliably (if it's at all possible) from a drive.
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