Hi people! I've got 2 serius problems, if anybody cares to help:
1.
When I installed Linux on a second partition on my harddrive and tried to fix dual boot, the first sectors on my harddrive where overwritten and now XP fails to load (NTUSER not found (etc)), even if I run fixboot and/or fixmbr.exe. The whole XP partition is now recognized as a FAT/FAT32 file system containing 4 corrupt files.
Chkdisk fails with "This disk contains one or more unrecoverable errors"
Is it possible to somehow write back the first sector of the disk? (Since this would be the most time saving solution)
Or do I have to somehow recover my most important files and reformat the whole partition?
If then; I've used "Recover Your Files" and apparently this one finds my files, does anybody know what the best settings would be for it?
2.
My other harddrive is also f***ed up, not Logicaly though. Somehow the controller card below the disk where damaged when it fell 0.5 cm down from another HD(the one im describing here above
) and short circiuted. When the BIOS is trying to find this HD though on boot, the whole boot hangs even though the disk spins up with the usual sound. This is also sugguesting there is a minor error on the controller card. Now i've bought a new HD of the exact same model since the controller cards looks exchangeable. And I will replace the damaged controller card with the new as soon as it arrives. Is there an expert here who can give me clever advices before I do this exchange? I have some really really really really really ^18 important data that I can't afford to loose right there.
Any suggestions/help and comments would be greatly apprichiated. Thanks!
1.
When I installed Linux on a second partition on my harddrive and tried to fix dual boot, the first sectors on my harddrive where overwritten and now XP fails to load (NTUSER not found (etc)), even if I run fixboot and/or fixmbr.exe. The whole XP partition is now recognized as a FAT/FAT32 file system containing 4 corrupt files.
Chkdisk fails with "This disk contains one or more unrecoverable errors"
Is it possible to somehow write back the first sector of the disk? (Since this would be the most time saving solution)
Or do I have to somehow recover my most important files and reformat the whole partition?
If then; I've used "Recover Your Files" and apparently this one finds my files, does anybody know what the best settings would be for it?
2.
My other harddrive is also f***ed up, not Logicaly though. Somehow the controller card below the disk where damaged when it fell 0.5 cm down from another HD(the one im describing here above
) and short circiuted. When the BIOS is trying to find this HD though on boot, the whole boot hangs even though the disk spins up with the usual sound. This is also sugguesting there is a minor error on the controller card. Now i've bought a new HD of the exact same model since the controller cards looks exchangeable. And I will replace the damaged controller card with the new as soon as it arrives. Is there an expert here who can give me clever advices before I do this exchange? I have some really really really really really ^18 important data that I can't afford to loose right there.Any suggestions/help and comments would be greatly apprichiated. Thanks!
You can try that and if that fails, get another identical drive and do platter swapping