I had a 10GB partition with WinXP Pro running on it. As I was working on it suddenly the computer blacked out and reebooted. But Windows NEVER started again. Just after the POST screen the system rebooted and on and on...
Operating System just failed to load. I inserted my WinXP CD and booted from it and entered the Recovery Console. I then executed the command "fixboot c:" and it said that my partition had a corrupt boot sector. It then asked whether to write a new boot sector or not. I wrote "yes" and pressed enter. After that I booted my system again and this time the computer got past the POST screen but it said "NTLDR missing." I was puzzled. I again booted with my WinXP CD and went to the Recovery Console. I typed "dir" and I was shocked !!! It said "0 files found..." All my data was gone.
I then executed "DISKPART" and saw that it showed my 10GB partition but showed the free space as 10MB only.
"fixboot" had overwritten my boot sector and FAT and also converted it to FAT12 (saw this in "fdisk"
. The size of this partition was being shown as 10MB in my friend's Win98 system.
The data is still there !! I am sure of it.. Only the FAT has been overwritten by "fixboot".
IS THERE ANY SOFTWARE THAT CAN REBUILD THE FAT AND RECOVER THE DATA IN MY PARTITION ??????
Operating System just failed to load. I inserted my WinXP CD and booted from it and entered the Recovery Console. I then executed the command "fixboot c:" and it said that my partition had a corrupt boot sector. It then asked whether to write a new boot sector or not. I wrote "yes" and pressed enter. After that I booted my system again and this time the computer got past the POST screen but it said "NTLDR missing." I was puzzled. I again booted with my WinXP CD and went to the Recovery Console. I typed "dir" and I was shocked !!! It said "0 files found..." All my data was gone.
I then executed "DISKPART" and saw that it showed my 10GB partition but showed the free space as 10MB only.
"fixboot" had overwritten my boot sector and FAT and also converted it to FAT12 (saw this in "fdisk"
The data is still there !! I am sure of it.. Only the FAT has been overwritten by "fixboot".
IS THERE ANY SOFTWARE THAT CAN REBUILD THE FAT AND RECOVER THE DATA IN MY PARTITION ??????