Data recovery and disk repair questions and discussions related to old-fashioned SATA, SAS, SCSI, IDE, MFM hard drives - any type of storage device that has moving parts
June 24th, 2011, 12:58
I had some trouble with a PC that kept rebooting itself in a continuous loop. Through Windows Recovery Console I used fixmbr, but after restarting I received the message, "Invalid Partition Table". Now I cannot boot from the disk at all nor can I read from it when connecting it to other computers using a SATA/USB cable.
What can I do to get data off of this hard drive?
June 24th, 2011, 13:22
After the MBR fix was applied were you still getting those beeps while booting?
What model drive is this?
June 24th, 2011, 14:26
I was not getting beeps at all. Just the message, "Invalid Partition Table," which did not appear until after I used fixmbr.
The drive is an 80GB Western Digital (WD800JD).
June 24th, 2011, 18:46
You said "nor can I read from it when connecting it to other computers using a SATA/USB cable."
Did the drive register in Device Manager when you connected to other computers via SATA or USB?
July 5th, 2011, 1:16
Plug the drive into another computer and run testdisk to read the drive. If testdisk finds a partition, you may write this to the drive, then reboot to see if the files are accessible.
Knoppix live USB has test disk, or you can burn the Testdisk ISO to a cd/dvd and boot from that.
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