On 30/08/2010 12:24, [email protected] wrote: > Many thanks for the various pieces of advice. > > Have just finished booting up an old WIN98 setup CD, using the F8 key > managed to get to a shell prompt where it had loaded a few utils into a > RAMDISK. FDISK /STATUS showed some partitions. Deleteing them appeared > to work, but then when trying to write a new partition it just hung again. > Re-booted and tried again. Similarly the status still showed the > partitions being there - even though I thought I had deleted them. > Realised, they were just marked for deletion and cos the new partition > hadn't worked they were still there. This time I deleted and then exited > from FDISK only to receive a disk write error. > > All similar symptoms to other methods used so far. > > Conclusion:- Either the disk is well and truly busted OR for reasons I > cannot explain or fix is that the MBR is opened read-only and it is busted > also. > > Is'nt there some form of low-level utility which would merely zap the disk > with zeros or something regardless whether it has some form of protection > on it? I don't need the data and I don't need any software - I can > install o/s afterwards. > > Lessons for others to learn: - if you haven't backed up your MDR and/or > taken an image of your disk and it is important to you - do it regularly > before it is too late. > > > If you can get to the WinXP Recovery Console, the info at http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/proddocs/en-us/bootcons_fixmbr.mspx?mfr=true may help.
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