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 Post subject: Help cannnot see data on partition
PostPosted: August 27th, 2010, 7:44 
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Hi all. I have 2 hdd on the system. I have jus' formatted the boot drive and reinstalled windows and now i cannot see the data on my second additional storage hdd. It is a 40gb seagate drive model ST340810A and i had to use Discwizard 2003 to format and use dynamic drive overlay because my bios would not let me format the drive to its full capacity. The partition is still there, but i jus' can't see the data, is there any way to unhide it? It was orignally formatted for win98 fat32 file system. Many thanks! Hits.


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 Post subject: Re: Help cannnot see data on partition
PostPosted: August 27th, 2010, 12:30 
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Oh crabs, jus' realised i have posted this in the wrong section :x

And help please!! :?

I have searched the board, but cannot find anything.

Has anyone ever come across a problem like this?
Thanks, Hits.


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 Post subject: Re: Help cannnot see data on partition
PostPosted: August 27th, 2010, 17:56 
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You can try a recovery program like Get Data Back for FAT32 recover your data on the drive, save it, and reformt the drive correctly with windows and put you data back on the drive. You can also try with RStudio on this one too.

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 Post subject: Re: Help cannnot see data on partition
PostPosted: August 29th, 2010, 8:35 
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I've used DDOs with Win95, so I'm reasonably familiar with how they work. I'm still using Win98SE, BTW.

There will be a small dummy entry in the partition table in sector 0, plus some custom MBR code. This code retrieves the INT13 extensions from additional sectors in track 0, and loads them into RAM as a small TSR (~3KB). This TSR points to a second MBR and partition table with the drive's full capacity, also located on track 0.

I believe all you need to do is to copy the contents of the second MBR over the DDO code in sector 0.

If you are familiar with disc editors, then save the contents of track 0 to a file and upload it.

Alternatively, you can use MBRtool to do the same thing:
http://www.diydatarecovery.nl/mbrtool.htm

Still another way is to use Microsoft's Sector Inspector to retrieve the partition table:
http://www.users.on.net/~fzabkar/SecInspect.zip

Extract the above archive to the one folder and execute the SIrun.bat file. The procedure will generate a report file named SIout.txt.


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