I think I erased the MBR! help...

[Ordo1999]

I was trying to ghost a drive to an emtpy drive. For some reason the empty drive over rid the source drive's MBR. So now when I try to boot with the source drive, it says Li...

There must be a way to get the data or fix the MBR...?

 

[AbsolutDealage]

I've had this problem... linux right?

you need a bootable linux floppy that has lilo on it. Boot up using the floppy and run lilo once. Reboot and that should fix it.

 

[Ordo1999]

Nope, Windows XP. I don't know why it shows Li...

Also, when I put the HD into another PC, it's showing the drive as a single fat32 partition... I really need this data back...

 

[WarCon]

Looks like somehow you had it ghost in reverse, seen a thread on this a few months ago and there is software that can recover it.

Here is the thread.......Made big mistake-used Ghost and now can't find my c:

 

[farscape]

We had an win2k install that went awry and lost 10 gig of data off a seperate drive thast we had as a backup. Used Restorer2000 Pro. Worked like a charm - got everything back except 1 junk file. $50.00 US from www.bitmart.net.

EDIT

They have a demo version that will let you see what's possible to recover. Takes about an hour to scan a 10 gig drive. Should give you a good idea of possible recovery. Hope this helps.

 

[Ordo1999]

I tried EasyRecovery Pro, and it only pulled some files from the C partion, none from the D partition.

hard drive before: C partition & D partition (NTFS)
Hard drive now: C partition (FAT32)

 

[saber800]

Boot using a floppy disk and run FDISK /MBR (on the drive missing the MBR). This will rewrite the master boot record without changing the partition information or anything saved on the hard drive.

 

[Ordo1999]

Originally posted by: saber800
Boot using a floppy disk and run FDISK /MBR (on the drive missing the MBR). This will rewrite the master boot record without changing the partition information or anything saved on the hard drive.

I tried that. The problem is, stupid ghost created a good working single c partition. So the fdisk switch doesn't change the MBR back to the original config..

 

[WarCon]

In the thread I posted, this is the software the individual used that actually worked.

Stellar Phoenix

I believe there is a free trial version that will let you know if it will work or not.

 

[Ordo1999]

Thats not going to help since I dont have the $...