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Roelvdh · 07-31-2003, 05:21 PM

During making preparations for upgrading from WinMe to WinXP my HD is suddenly no longer bootable. The disk contains a C-drive (boot up) and D-drive. A DIR command from a floppy says the media on the HD is invalid.
I have used Partition Recovery which doesn't find any former partitions but declares the entire 80Gb of the disk Unallocated. Still, when I do a disk view I see the first few sectors seemingly correctly. I did an FDISK /MBR without any result. I also checked with Norton Ghost which reports a correct size of the disk.
Would my Partition Table possibly be corrupted and if so, are there possibilities to restore the table?

Any help would be appreciated.

Roel

07-31-2003, 05:21 PM	#1 (permalink)
Roelvdh Newb Techie Join Date: Jul 2003 Posts: 4	Lost partition table? During making preparations for upgrading from WinMe to WinXP my HD is suddenly no longer bootable. The disk contains a C-drive (boot up) and D-drive. A DIR command from a floppy says the media on the HD is invalid. I have used Partition Recovery which doesn't find any former partitions but declares the entire 80Gb of the disk Unallocated. Still, when I do a disk view I see the first few sectors seemingly correctly. I did an FDISK /MBR without any result. I also checked with Norton Ghost which reports a correct size of the disk. Would my Partition Table possibly be corrupted and if so, are there possibilities to restore the table? Any help would be appreciated. Roel