Roached Partion Table

[TheLastColdBeer]

Right you genius'. My MBR is annihilated. My partion table is scrap. Windoze will only bawl its' little eyes out and say " drive C: is raw data without a known file system........do you wish to format? FU Billy Gates......easeUS not only shows my old partion table, but can read ALL the data on said drive. I'm just a little pissed off. Is there anything I can do, without spending money, to restore my old MBR & partion table (NTFS, large drive)?? HATE, that's my emotion right now for MicroSloft. Wish I had a penny for every hour little billy billionaire has cost me.

Just because a book is missing its' first page, doesn't mean you can't read the next thousand pages of story. Any boot sector magicians out there? Somebody must like typing in hexadecimal address'.

[KaptCrunch]

is drive seen in a working system ? Non booting drive if so back up your data off drive

 

then put back in troubled sysem use windows disk to boot from optical drive, get to the repair option then in dos prompt  type "fixmbr"

[TheLastColdBeer]

Apparently I wasn't clear enough. I have installed another operating system on another hard drive. Windows will not, can not, refuses to have anything to do with, my original hard drive (now installed as a slave D:). All Windows does is ask me if I want to format D: as it only sees it as a raw, unformatted hard drive. I have tried several data recovery programs, but get the error "division by 0" and cannot read drive. The program EaseUS can read the drive, and sees the damaged MBR, along with the partion tables. All my data on that drive is still intact, but unaccessable. Unless I spend money to fully activate their program.

What completely pisses me off is, a Master Boot Record is written on the first few bytes of any drive. It's the first thing CMOS sees. YOU THE OPERATOR can write your own MBR if you know what you're doing. I'm not versed in hexadecimal addressing, and I'd rather have a smart operating system correctly write tables for me. WinDuh is too stupid to do so. In other words, I've already paid Microsoft for an operating system, but it fouled itself up, and now I have to pay for a third party to correct Microsoft's FU?

FIXMBR, FIXBOOT, CHKDSK, and any other system recovery commands will not work on a drive that Windows/DOS can't see.

[KaptCrunch]

_{i see  arconis  has a triail version  of  Acronis Disk Director has mbr repair   they will give if free by true image 2013 for free  its well worth to have for arconis is kick ass app for storage data mainteneice}

Edited April 21, 2013 by KaptCrunch

[TheLastColdBeer]

Ahhh, leave it to the Linux gang. Parted Magic & System Rescue! Both available under the GNU license as bootable ISO's.

[eidolonFIRE]

Actually, 

 

The MBR was invented in IBM before Bill Gates bought DOS.

 

[TheLastColdBeer]

That's nice. Now why doesn't Winduhz recognize other file systems. Oh yeah, something about property rights and agreements with virus software developers. Billy gets a royalty from them as long as MS doesn't include advanced tools in their operating systems. Cute business model.

[PingLo]

Congrats on fixing your problem LCB!

 

Actually, 

 

The MBR was invented in IBM before Bill Gates bought DOS.

 

 

Not quite accurate, you see Bill actually bought his DOS from another company before licensing it to IBM for their brand new PC that was going to kill off this silly personal computer industry.  MBR did't arrive until DOS 2.0 but at least least according to the excellent reference here it came from an IBM entity:

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master_boot_record

 

[Tball]

Have you tried Hirens boot cd has save my ass many a times http://www.hirensbootcd.org/download/

[TheLastColdBeer]

I'll have a look, now that I'm saved....lol. I meant earlier that Billy takes royalties from ANTI-virus software developers. I'm sure you folks didn't believe he supports virus creators (or maybe MS does, they'll steal code from anybody). I'm disappointed OS/2 didn't kill off Microsoft. That was one hell of an operating system. Stable as a rock, and a multi-tasking monster. As a plus, it could emulate Windows and do it with one hand tied behind its' back. OS/2 was the entire reason Win95 was written. And a whole new generation was raised on reboots, crashes, and the BSOD. And they thought it was normal. Amazing what attrocities you can become accustomed to.

[TecHnOBoY]

That's nice. Now why doesn't Winduhz recognize other file systems. Oh yeah, something about property rights and agreements with virus software developers. Billy gets a royalty from them as long as MS doesn't include advanced tools in their operating systems. Cute business model.

Why should Microsoft support other file systems like ext, reiser etc? This FS are effective! I never found any effective thing in Windows or other Microsoft products. Outlook, Powerpoint, Excel, Sharepoint... CRAP!

And then this: *click*click*click* Next, next, complete. Doesn't work? Retry, reboot reinstall. BAH! I do the most things on a linux desktop or server MUCH faster than on a Windows system. Although i only use the command line. I use Kubuntu at work and my teamleader is pissed about it because i need other hardware specs to use a Virtual Box with win 7 to be able to use the Exchange functions, Excel and Active Directory administration tools. Too expensive... *argh*. Thank god that more and more developers notice that Linux  gets more and more popular and they convert their tools to Linux systems too.

 

 

BTW: It's unbelieveable that Windows is build around a *NIX kernel.

BTW2: did you solve your problem?

[TecHnOBoY]

That's nice. Now why doesn't Winduhz recognize other file systems. Oh yeah, something about property rights and agreements with virus software developers. Billy gets a royalty from them as long as MS doesn't include advanced tools in their operating systems. Cute business model.

 

 

Why should Microsoft support other file systems like ext, reiser etc?

This FS are effective! I never found any effective thing in Windows or

other Microsoft products. Outlook, Powerpoint, Excel, Sharepoint...

CRAP!

And then this: *click*click*click* Next, next, complete.

Doesn't work? Retry, reboot reinstall. BAH! I do the most things on a

linux desktop or server MUCH faster than on a Windows system. Although i

only use the command line. I use Kubuntu at work and my teamleader is

pissed about it because i need other hardware specs to use a Virtual Box

with win 7 to be able to use the Exchange functions, Excel and Active

Directory administration tools. Too expensive... *argh*. Thank god that

more and more developers notice that Linux  gets more and more popular

and they convert their tools to Linux systems too.

 

 

BTW: It's unbelieveable that Windows is build around a *NIX kernel.

BTW2: did you solve your problem?

[TheLastColdBeer]

Yes Techno, data saved. Thanks to a couple of Linux bootable solutions. Parted Magic & System Rescue, both with command line & graphical interface. Can't beat the command line if you want things done NOW (jetzt!). I love tiny kernels. They point you to your files/executable, and step out of the way.

[Joe Canadian]

Beer, what version of windows are you running? I've heard that MS does no longer support Win 95 and Win 98... ;-)

[TheLastColdBeer]

DOS 5.0....TheLastStableDOS. Still running XP pro, but it's getting too long in the tooth for gaming. Believe me, if Linux could play WAW well, I wouldn't have a Windows machine.

[TecHnOBoY]

A few months ago I played Portal (not the ported version) on a Linux machine using Wine. I worked very well. With one exception: the X server f*cked me when I tried to run the game in full screen mode. Screen resolution 2.560x2048 (2 19" displays, 4:3). This wasn't funny

[TheLastColdBeer]

What are you using for X? I was never fond of KDE or GNOME. I'm going to throw another hard drive in my box & go back to dual-booting. Might just run Slackware for everyday & boot to Win 7 for gaming, after all, it's down to $60 for a builders' copy.

[TecHnOBoY]

I started using Ubuntu with 8.04 and Gnome. I use KDE until Cannonical decided to use Unity. At work my primary System is a Kubuntu with Virtual Box for Windows 7 (bah).
My PC at home is set up for dual boot with Kubuntu as primary system. Oh and a notebook with Ubuntu and XFCE.

This is more efficient on the old machine xD

[eidolonFIRE]

 

I started using Ubuntu with 8.04 and Gnome. I use KDE until Cannonical decided to use Unity. At work my primary System is a Kubuntu with Virtual Box for Windows 7 (bah).

My PC at home is set up for dual boot with Kubuntu as primary system. Oh and a notebook with Ubuntu and XFCE.

This is more efficient on the old machine xD

 

Nice! I won't use any Ubuntu version past 10.04   (LTS)

[TecHnOBoY]

I started with 8.04. For sure I am only using the newest LTS version on my PCs and servers. I am an idiot but not stupid

[TheLastColdBeer]

LOL, right now I'm typing this in FireFox running kernel 3.7.9. I have testdisk on another desktop with my harddrive analysist completed. The NTFS file system reports incorrect cylinder amount 255 vs. 240. All my files are available, just need to mount another device to copy crucial files.

I don't have the guts to press enter to repair MBR......yet.

[TecHnOBoY]

Try and error!

[TheLastColdBeer]

OK Techno, I restored the filesystem....whew. Closed my eyes & said "Y" to restore *HPFS NTFS. Damn that was scary. That drive isn't bootable, but it's readable now.

[TecHnOBoY]

Lucky ....

 

No data lost. Back up them and give it another try to fix the MBR. Maybe... But I wouldn't use this one as a OS drive. It may just the beginning of the end.

 

Glad you solved it m8