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I think I wiped my MBR, GAH!!

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Rommels

Senior member
So I was looking around on my Ultimate Boot CD and was looking at MBRWizard. I did something totally nub and accidentally hit the key for the menu item that wipes the MBR for the selected disk (/Wipe=#).

Anyways, this was a one partition disk that only holds data and no OS.
It has a little under 200GB of data I do not want to lose (I'm not writing anything to id to preserve it). I have run TestDisk but it didn't find the partition.

Help, I'm scared mommy.

My setup is like this...
HDD1 (250GB) has Vista on the primary and XP Pro on an extended partition, and one more extended partition for data
HDD2 (250GB) only has a primary partition for the whole drive and contains only data.
If I had the space I'd backup to HDD1 but HDD1 doesn't have enough space.
Both formatted with NTFS.

I was in the process of trying to add an extended partition for HDD2 so I could put XP on there instead but Vista only wanted to shrink it by 1.5GB when it had 60GB available. So I booted into my UltimateBootCD which has PartitionMagic 8 on it. Only problem it insisted both disk were "BAD", whatever that means. So I thought maybe the MBR for HDD2 got messed up by Vista. So I went into the MBRWizard which is on my UBCD. I accidentally pressed the number for wipe instead of save and now I am where I am.
 
I believe what you want to do is boot to the recovery console and execute the fixmbr command. And possibly fixboot.
 
I have been searching around and from what i am reading I should be doing either of those options.
It isn't a boot drive and it doesn't magically recreate the partition table.

I have also installed and ran Partition Table Doctor Demo. In the demo it will tell you if it can rebuild a partition. I sisn't finding one for me 🙁

I'm starting to get sad. I might have to copy files over slowly and back up on cd and then format...I'll be even sadder if I have to do this.
 
FixMBR does not require that the drive be the boot disk - you can specify any boot device, and it actually does create a shiny new partition table.

[Edit] That said, some data recovery software should be able to get that data back for you without potentially impacting the drive negatively.
 
Well I went into recovery console and did a fixmbr on the second hdd, nothing though 🙁
Looks like I'll have to start backing up the really important stuff...
 
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