Partition table error

[perkelezi]

Disk read error

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After merging two partitions on active drive C: with Partition Magic got error #113 (Partitions overlap)...
Couldn't boot Win ....Linux boot CD neither worked. After some readings about patching MBR tried to get it worked
(used ptedit from rescue diskettes) ,but only got error #110 (Partition table number of sectors is inconsistent)
but this time had the disk shown in Partition Magic (with rescue floppies) with all partitions.
This was first time I did something like this but I'm not rookie with computers at all just didn't had a chance
to mess up with this ...fortunatelly ... by now.

Disk is WD Caviar WD400BB 40GB with LBA 78165360 parameters and had two partitions after merging ( C: 20GB and D: 18.5 GB)

Drive belongs to my friend and there is about 2 GB of photos from last two years ,
very valuable to him ( first baby steps and lot more....very sad situation). Never backed up
If anybody can help it would be highly appreciated.
If you need more info please drop me a note.

If You have any experience please take time and look at this.

Here is table as it looks now:


DISK 1 (4865 cyl, 255 heads, 63 sectors/track)

-------starting-------- -------ending---------- sectors
type boot cyl heads sectors cyl heads sectors before sectors
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1 07 80 0 1 1 1023 254 63 63 20531007

2 0F 00 1023 0 1 1023 254 63 20531070 57625155

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These are values before I made changes:

1 sectors before 63 to 41046012
2 -----||------- 20531070 to 57625155




Here are boot records for both parent and child:

-----PARENT-------------------
1. Jump - EB5290
2. OEM - NTFS
3. byt/sec - 512
4. sect/clust - 8
5. reserved clusters - 0
6. Number of fats - 0
7. Root dir entries - 0
8. Total sectors - 0
9. Media descriptor - F8
10. sect per fat - 0
11. sect per track - 63
12. number of heads - 255
13. hiden sectors - 63
14. total sectors >32MB - 0
15. unused 80008000 (hex)
16. total NTFS sectors - 20531006
17. MFT start cluster - 786432
18. MFT mirror start cluster - 1283187
19. clusters per FRS - 246
20. clusters per Index block - 1
21. ser# FA1479941479551B
22. checksum - 0
23. signature - AA55

------CHILD----------------------
1. Jump - EB5290
2. OEM - NTFS
3. byt/sec - 512
4. sect/clust - 8
5. reserved clusters - 0
6. Number of fats - 0
7. Root dir entries - 0
8. Total sectors - 0
9. Media descriptor - F8
10. sect per fat - 0
11. sect per track - 63
12. number of heads - 255
13. hiden sectors - 63
14. total sectors >32MB - 0
15. unused 80008000 (hex)
16. total NTFS sectors - 57625088
17. MFT start cluster - 4
18. MFT mirror start cluster - 524288
19. clusters per FRS - 246
20. clusters per Index block - 1
21. ser# 424FB33C3AD37D24
22. checksum - 0
23. signature - AA55


anyway , thanks for any help that you could provide

 

[wolluf]

Have you tried a data recovery app?

There are a number recommended here eg:

http://www.pcinspector.de/file_recovery/UK/welcome.htm

(free)

http://www.runtime.org/gdb.htm

(commercial)

Google will also return a number.

(I suspect you could spend a long time not getting anywhere trying to edit mbr/partition table etc).

 

[perkelezi]

Thanks to all who contributed,
unfortunatelly I was unable to get the photos back...
Here is what we did:
-used FIXMBR from WinXP CD... after that we could see bad partition in PartMagic as it was before
-tried Active Uneraser from boot floppy but only had demo and couldn't undelete all data (program is $49.99) too bad
-also tried some other apps but no luck ( partition in question only had 50 or so MB of data, which is impossible!!!!)
-installed WinXP on other partition and tried some other apps under windows (only undelete data we found on disk was All users folder!!, and Windows folder with .inf and .drv files!!! Have no idea how it couldn't restore his folder under Docs& settings). Restored what we found with Recover4All app which is btw very handy..

- then my friend said goodbye photos...

and format c: was on the way

lesson we learned!!

 

[xpamd]

As far as I know, (never used it myself) this would be the best solution:

http://www.pc-powertools.com/data-recovery/recover-images-pictures-recovery.htm