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by laubach

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Any way to recover data from a hard drive that can't find the MBR on a Win 98 second edition hard drive? I have attempted to add the drive as a slave to another drive - it it not recognized. When I boot from a startup disk, files are copied to the cdrive. That is all that is shown on the c drive.

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by syscokid

Boot from a startup disk and run fdisk /mbr. If that doesn't work, I think you may need a data recovery company, though somebody may know of some software that might help.

by laubach

I tried to boot to a floppy disk, and then typed fdisk /mbr got an error message.

by astrocat123

your machine should be able to see the second hard drive if you have the jumper cableling correct. to extrat the information if the drive is still good and the cabeling is correct, i would look for a drive recovery software program preferably free of cousre at either cnet.com or zdnet.com

by buffalodan

The mastewr boot record is integrates between the OS and your Bios/system board.
it lays out the logical definitions for your drive/partition. Without this, the drive is not available to windows at all.

If fdisk /mbr does not solve, you may needa direct editor, Norton utilities has one

Also, some bios overlay products can cause similar problems, if they have been incorrectly removed.

Try EZBios or MAxBlast, they might be able to ressurect this drive.

by acsbillw

Go to a command prompt and type this in.

C:fisk /mbr

Then hit enter. This has worked for me several times.
Good Luck

by imrankasu

copy comand.com and io.sys from another system and place it in the root directory after booting from a startup disk

by nemesis_bob

You could be able to recover the drive using Tiramisu which is opertaing system specific.

Ontrack is the dealer for this software

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