master boot record

*selah* · External Since: May 23, 2005 Posts: 34

I'm looking for a copy of a win98 mbr for a 40G hard drive from sector 1 -
67 for a drive that had the mbr damaged.

Would appreciate any help with this.

David H. Lipman · External Since: Mar 14, 2004 Posts: 1826

From: "*selah*" <pzion.naax DeleteThis @yahoo.com>

| I'm looking for a copy of a win98 mbr for a 40G hard drive from sector 1 -
| 67 for a drive that had the mbr damaged.
|
| Would appreciate any help with this.
|

Boot from the Win98 Emergency Book Disk (EBD) and execute; fdisk /mbr

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Bill Blanton · External Since: Jun 13, 2004 Posts: 572

"*selah*" <pzion.naax.DeleteThis@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:d6t7k701d2t@news1.newsguy.com...
> I'm looking for a copy of a win98 mbr for a 40G hard drive from sector 1 -
> 67 for a drive that had the mbr damaged.
>
> Would appreciate any help with this.

Why do you think you need sector 1-67? As David said fdisk /mbr will
rewrite the mbr, but it won't touch the other 66 sectors. Do you have
a drive overlay installed? If so, running fdisk without the overlay
loaded will make recovery even more difficult. Add to that, that if
the ending sector signature word is missing in the mbr, fdisk will
rewrite the partition table.

Bill Watt · External Since: Apr 02, 2005 Posts: 323

On Mon, 23 May 2005 14:32:27 -0400, "*selah*" <pzion.naax.TakeThisOut@yahoo.com>
wrote:

>I'm looking for a copy of a win98 mbr for a 40G hard drive from sector 1 -
>67 for a drive that had the mbr damaged.
>
>Would appreciate any help with this.

See this MS article and note the warnings.
FDISK /MBR Rewrites the Master Boot Record
<a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q69013/" target="_blank">http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q69013/</a>

You can get the free utility Mbrwork, it will install a standard
MBR plus other options.
<a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/utilities.html" target="_blank">http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/utilities.html</a>

Regards,

Bill Watt
Computer Help and Information <a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://home.ptd.net/~bwatt/" target="_blank">http://home.ptd.net/~bwatt/</a>

*selah* · External Since: May 23, 2005 Posts: 34

I was able to get the computer to recognize 2.5G by using the sectors from a
2.5G drive (1 to about 66). I want to get the computer to recognize a single
partition of 40G with win98. Then, if it doesn't find the directories and
files, I'll try to rebuild.

"Bill Blanton" <bblanton.RemoveThis@REMOVEmagicnet.net> wrote in message
news:eGqSW59XFHA.4032@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
> "*selah*" <pzion.naax.RemoveThis@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:d6t7k701d2t@news1.newsguy.com...
  > > I'm looking for a copy of a win98 mbr for a 40G hard drive from sector
1 -
  > > 67 for a drive that had the mbr damaged.
  > >
  > > Would appreciate any help with this.
>
> Why do you think you need sector 1-67? As David said fdisk /mbr will
> rewrite the mbr, but it won't touch the other 66 sectors. Do you have
> a drive overlay installed? If so, running fdisk without the overlay
> loaded will make recovery even more difficult. Add to that, that if
> the ending sector signature word is missing in the mbr, fdisk will
> rewrite the partition table.
>
>
>
>

Bill Blanton · External Since: Jun 13, 2004 Posts: 572

That's not the way to go about it. You have probably overwritten
the first partition's boot sectors with incorrect parameters. As it
stand now, you will probably have to restore the FAT32 boot sectors
from it's backup, and then work on fixing the partition tables.

There are many file recovery programs. Here's one, though not free.
<a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://www.diydatarecovery.nl/" target="_blank">http://www.diydatarecovery.nl/</a>
<a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://www.diydatarecovery.nl/irecover.htm" target="_blank">http://www.diydatarecovery.nl/irecover.htm</a>

"*selah*" <pzion.naax DeleteThis @yahoo.com> wrote in message news:d6ugp704ea@news1.newsguy.com...
>I was able to get the computer to recognize 2.5G by using the sectors from a
> 2.5G drive (1 to about 66). I want to get the computer to recognize a single
> partition of 40G with win98. Then, if it doesn't find the directories and
> files, I'll try to rebuild.
>
> "Bill Blanton" <bblanton DeleteThis @REMOVEmagicnet.net> wrote in message
> news:eGqSW59XFHA.4032@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
  >> "*selah*" <pzion.naax DeleteThis @yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:d6t7k701d2t@news1.newsguy.com...
   >> > I'm looking for a copy of a win98 mbr for a 40G hard drive from sector
> 1 -
   >> > 67 for a drive that had the mbr damaged.
   >> >
   >> > Would appreciate any help with this.
  >>
  >> Why do you think you need sector 1-67? As David said fdisk /mbr will
  >> rewrite the mbr, but it won't touch the other 66 sectors. Do you have
  >> a drive overlay installed? If so, running fdisk without the overlay
  >> loaded will make recovery even more difficult. Add to that, that if
  >> the ending sector signature word is missing in the mbr, fdisk will
  >> rewrite the partition table.
  >>
  >>
  >>
  >>
>
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