On 2006-04-17 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I deleted by error the MBR of my hard disk. When it happens, I though
> that I could repair it making FDISK /MBR instruction, but I'm wrong.
> And now I have a hard disk that appears as not partitioned (I had 3
> partitions) and where I can't do anything.

"fdisk /mbr" does not restore the entire MBR, but only the boot-code
in it. A deleted/damaged partition tablewon't be re-created by fdisk.

> I saw in the Internet some utilities as Active Partition Recovery that
> allow to repair deleted partitions, but I don't know if it's the
> utility I need to solve my problem.

Don't know about Active Partition Recovery, but I have used gpart [1]
with good success in the past, and I have heard from people I trust that
Testdisk [2] did work very well for them.

[1] http://www.stud.uni-hannover.de/user/76201/gpart/
[2] http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk

Regards
Ansgar Wiechers
-- 
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becoming available."
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