Well, here’s a lame one for ya… I am rather stumped.
I installed a program that will encrypt your hd in it’s entirety. For it to work, it alters your partition tables. Before it does that though, the software creates a backup of your old tables.
Well for the first time, the software failed. My computer lost it’s operating system (which is no big deal as it was a fresh install anyhow) and I lost ALL of my data files on my second hard disk. The second disk was partitioned into two drives. Both disks are now showing that they are missing their file system as their tables are no longer correct. The disk sizes are still correct and they are still showing their proper drive letters. I have run a utility so I CAN see that the datais intact in it’s entirety, I just can not access it.
My question is this: Does anyone in here know how to fix this. I have tried to repair the MBR with Fdisk for both the master drive and the slave drive. That did not work. I have tried to use disk repair utilities and they are not able to read the disks as they say there’s no file system. I am trying to prevent having to copy back over fifty CD’s to the disk and then have to reorganize. I am just hoping that there’s some last ditch type of thing that can be done to fix this. I backup everything, but I never thought to backup my boot records… ;\
If anyone can help me with this one, I would greatly appreciate it!!!
Mrafrohead
