Fix Hard Drive?

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wpr · #1 Post by **wpr** » Sun Jan 20, 2008 4:06 am

I have a drive that isn't working properly. The BIOS recognizes it and XP Pro's Device Manager shows it to be 'working properly,' but I can't access the partitions on it.

Can I use any of the utilities on the UBCD to get this drive working properly again? If so, could you please give the steps?

Thanks for any help.

The Piney · #2 Post by **The Piney** » Sun Jan 20, 2008 9:00 am

testdisk may help you out, but read the instructions first in case there are any changes.. The wiki for it is here ---> http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk

MBRtool and others may help too. Sometimes the drive could be corrupted so you can't get it back to working without a reload but you may be able to get some of the data back that you haven't backed up..

wpr · #3 Post by **wpr** » Sun Jan 20, 2008 4:23 pm

Thanks for the reply. I tried Testdisk but it wouldn't/couldn't read the drive.

MBRtool looks interesting, but I didn't see where it could fix the master boot record. The closest option is the restore feature, but I don't have a copy of the MBR before the disk failed. Unless, I missed something.