I have a 80GB Seagate drive that has become unreadable. The bios detects it right but windows cant see it. After using Seagate's Seatools, I can only think that the MBR is messedup as the volume name shows all sorts of weird symbols. I have 20GB in this drive that isnt backed up anywhere else. I have thought about trying to use Seatools to move the partition to a 120GB drive I have but Id have to clear that drive first and I dont feel like backing up 20+ GB on to CD-R....
Is there any kinda of program I can use that can perhaps fix the mbr without destroying everything? Perhaps something like chkdsk?
Ideas?
P.S
This came about after windows xp reported a systemtray balloon saying to the effect "data write error" I thought perhaps having XP powerdown the drive caused this when something tried writing to the disk, so I restarted my computer and poof....the drive is useless.
Is there any kinda of program I can use that can perhaps fix the mbr without destroying everything? Perhaps something like chkdsk?
Ideas?
P.S
This came about after windows xp reported a systemtray balloon saying to the effect "data write error" I thought perhaps having XP powerdown the drive caused this when something tried writing to the disk, so I restarted my computer and poof....the drive is useless.
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