[access-uk] Re: HOW TO RECOVER MASTER BOOT RECORD ON EXTERNAL HARD DISC

Several years ago, i used a program called "Restorer 2000 to restore an external hd that had gone south and that my computer did not recognize as a formatted drive anymore.
I do not know if this program is still availble or where to find it. A friend helped me with it at the time. it was fairly speech friendly.
If you want to use the method Mr.Barry suggested, you could just put the drive into a box as a secondary disk - provided the mbrfix command works on drives other than the one holding the operating system. 


hth

Doris




At 05:51 PM 3/30/2010 +0100, you wrote:

Hi there Barry
I have just had a look at the link that you gave and upon reading the article, I can say that it isn't windows itself that is the problem but the reading of an external drive that is.
I wonder, could I trouble you once more? Windows will read the drive but shows it as raw format and not NTFS as it was before. How can I resolve this, if it is possible that is? 

Thanks a lot for your advice and hel thus far.

Kulvinder Singh Bhogal
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Kulvinder,

Here ya go have a read here Straight forward steps.

http://helpdeskgeek.com/how-to/fix-mbr-xp-vista/


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Hi all

Hope someone has an answer to this.

How do i go about recovering my master boot record on my external hard disc.

i have years of material on it that I don't wish to lose if I don't have to.

Any help gratefully received.

Regards.
Kulvinder

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