Restore Lost Partition Tables

[pipe]

(Search words)
restore partition table
hosed mbr
repair mbr
recover

I will make this short and sweet.

|The Problem|

While playing around with the bootable floppy Max Blast utility that came with my new drive, I managed to hose my mbr and partition tables. I use BeOS's bootman as my Boot Manager and I had 4 OS's previously installed on two drives. DOS fdisk could not see any partitions and none of my boot floppies for Linux, BeOS, Win could find a partition. I was as sad as sad could be. http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ubb/frown.gif

|The Solution|

A friend at work clued me on a free DOS utility MBRWORK. Put the mbrwork.exe on a floppy. Boot from a DOS bootdisk. Follow the easy instructions here:
http://www.webdev.net/orca/mbrwork.htm

It worked so well I feel obligated to post it here. Maybe some desperate soul will find this in a search one day and it will get them out of a jam. http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ubb/smile.gif

[This message has been edited by pipe (edited 28 November 2000).]

[lukeles]

I suggest you use Partition Table Doctor to resolve your
problem.The software provides very useful functions:
Backup partition table, Restore partition table, Rebuild
partition table, undelete partition, Fix boot sector,
rebuild mbr,etc.

First thing I recommend you download the demo version of
Partition Table Doctor.( http://www.ptdd.com/download.htm )

Run the program and select "Rebuild Partition Table",
then choose "Interactive" mode.

See more: http://www.ptdd.com/recoverylostpartition.htm
http://www.ptdd.com/recoverdeletedpartition.htm
http://www.ptdd.com/partition-recovery.htm
http://www.ptdd.com

[bwkaz]

Err, maybe you didn't notice, but this post is about 4 and a half years old, and the person in question wasn't having a problem anyway. That's why it was in "How I Did It". ;)

[kmzpub]

Hi,

Lost partition can be saved using Active@ Partition Recovery tool. It can easily restore lost partition, as it did for me before. Really great tool, with awesome restore algorithms. Give it a try. Recommended!
http://www.partition-recovery.com/