Missing Operating System!!

[Skyclad1uhm1]

If you have problems with both the harddisk as well as the CD drive, are you sure the IDE cable is in place, and the cable and connector are still ok?

 

[Riprorin]

I slaved the HDD to a HDD in another computer. The C Drive's gone. I was able to recover the D and E drives though.

 

[Skyclad1uhm1]

Originally posted by: Riprorin
I slaved the HDD to a HDD in another computer. The C Drive's gone. I was able to recover the D and E drives though.

Run Partition Magic, it may be able to recover it still. That you can see the rest means sector 0 is still ok, which means the drive still can be used.

 

[Riprorin]

I ran McAffee Emergency recovery disk and it showed 0 files on the C drive.

 

[Skyclad1uhm1]

Originally posted by: Riprorin
I ran McAffee Emergency recovery disk and it showed 0 files on the C drive.

Unless something somehow managed to format the partition the problem should be either the partition table or a physical problem with the drive, both of which Partition Magic should be able to find and fix. Never used McAfee's recovery stuff, not quite sure what that looks for.

 

[spanky]

Originally posted by: Riprorin
I slaved the HDD to a HDD in another computer. The C Drive's gone. I was able to recover the D and E drives though.

get a win98 boot disk and do a format from the a:\>

 

[sandorski]

You may need to use fdisk to fix your drive. First try "fdisk /mbr", then see if your drive is fixed(re: C: and all files ok). If that doesn't work, then use fdisk to re-partition the drive(all files will be lost, but since you've backed up D: and E: you will at least have those).

I think the first might work, so don't skip it.

 

[Pepsi90919]

um, you probably didn't lose anything. your MBR is hosed because of some partition you used to have on there. try fdisk /mbr at a DOS prompt and reboot.