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manually partitioning non-boot disk (save data?)
Hello,
Hopefully someone here can help me, or if there is a more suitable forum, please direct me there. I reformatted a 2nd disk (\Device\HardDisk1) that had a Linux OS on it. I was using GRUB on the 2nd Disk to choose between Linux and Windows XP, which is on my 1st disk (\Device\HardDisk0). After reformatting the Linux drive to NTFS and moving a lot of files there, I realized I would need to get Windows to boot up on its own, and after some luck, I got it to do that, but in the process I zeroed out the whole MBR that was on the 2nd disk and the partition info (where I had already reformatted to NTFS and saved a lot of files). I have MBRTOOLS which allows me to edit the partition table and the rest of the MBR for the 2nd disk, but I get an incorrect size for that disk after I boot into windows - it should be 80 Gig, but it's showing one partition at 7.88GB and then 66.65 unallocated. Aside from the size problem with the partition, *I want to save the data on the disk*, so if I get the partition entered correctly in MBRTOOLS, will I be able to access it again? If so, can someone clarify the partition settings for me. I have the following set up (obviously incorrectly). act = 00 (I think this means non-bootable) type = 7 (for NTFS ?) start CHS = 0,1,1 end CHS = 1023, 254,63 (note, when I enter 63 for Sector, the Cylinder auto decrements to 1022)?? LBA start = 63 LBA Length = auto populated at something like 16,5??,??? (sorry, forget the exact) This is Seagate's 80GB Hard drive, model ST380013A. Maybe the auto- decrementing of the Cylinder value is to blame and I need to use a tool other than MBR TOOLS Thanks in advance, Brian |
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