On Saturday 11 February 2006 17:50, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > Anne Wilson wrote: > > I've found the TeskDisk utility, and tried it. I got as far as > > rebuilding the Boot Sector and being able to list the directories, but it > > says it is unable to write the new Boot Sector. Without that I don't see > > how the data is recoverable. Any advice, anyone, please? > > > > Anne > > Dumb question - does your BIOS support write protecting the MBR? > They have different names for it - usually something about virus > protection. If so, you will need to turn it off. > I don't think so, Mikkel. I can't find anything. The whole of the tests only mentioned one read error. I reckon that the corruption is right at the beginning, where the boot sector should be written. Ah well, from what I've seen I think specialist help would be able to recover the data, but at great expense. I think the guy who has lost his data will just have to do his work all over again. There's another one who has learned the true value of regular backups <g> Anne
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