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Hang on a minute. Windows, to its everlasting shame, still has drive letters. Consequently, some kinds of MBR corruption can make you lose your drive letter. Is that the kind of thing you're trying to solve? The Microsoft help pages SAY the PLScsi technique works there too, but the device naming scheme will change radically. The only examples I saw were with true parallel Scsi drives, not FireWire/ Usb/ Atapi. I can't personally confirm that reading of Microsoft's help, because personally all my Scsi pass thru experience has been limited to when a drive letter exists. Myself, when I don't have a drive letter, I tell the Win XP Disk Manager to go smash at least the MBR and maybe a few more blocks, then I have a drive letter, and then I restore lots of blocks. Pat LaVarre -----Original Message----- From: Pat LaVarre Sent: Thu 1/2/2003 2:15 PM To: T13 List Server Cc: Subject: RE: [t13] "disk doctor" programs This message is from the T13 list server. Elaborate please: We want Win NT/2K/XP? We also need Win 95/98/ME? We don't care about Dos & Linux & Mac solutions? We only want something that can be downloaded for free? We want to edit the MBR without otherwise erasing the disk? Myself, for Win & Dos & Linux & Mac, to do this kind of thing I use: http://members.aol.com/plscsi/ But plscsi is hardly suitable for general use: it's like using AT commands to dial the Internet. But someone could take that core and add a GUI to try and keep people out of trouble. My point is, in Windows, one can easily muck around with the MBR, at least if you don't need a GUI, using short snippets of code you can build with such free C compilers as the gcc of http://www.mingw.org Pat LaVarre -----Original Message----- From: Hale Landis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thu 1/2/2003 10:03 AM To: T13 List Server Cc: Subject: [t13] "disk doctor" programs This message is from the T13 list server. I get a lot of questions like this... Can anyone suggest a "disk doctor" program that can restore the MBR sector data on an external 1394/Firewire hard disk? Any ideas out there? Thanks. Hale *** Hale Landis *** www.ata-atapi.com ***
