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:
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