Hey hey.. quotes are back..

"PCR" wrote in message ...
| I'd use DiskPatch first, as freeware MBRWork is a "do or die"
operation.

I was going to ask why?, but I think I figured it out. MBRWork's Option
1 isn't sufficient to backup the current locations of logical drives
within Extended Partitions, is it? That's because the logical drive
chain is outside track one?

Right. The logical drive tables "sit on top" of the logical drive they
define, with a pointer to the next in the chain.

It doesn't really sound like MBRWork will
even try to recover logical drives, but only the Extended Partition
itself.

I'm not sure on that, but I would think it would. You could ask
David F. Either way (in this case), if it didn't, it wouldn't help. If it did, it
would be a "no return" operation. Not easily anyway.