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recover overwritten boot sector with dynamic overlay

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by paulmetot

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I have a 160G Maxtor hard drive that had a dynamic overlay in place due to the 30g limitation of the system bios of the PC (motherboard) in which it was installed. The boot sector has become corrupt and was then overwritten, mainly due to the late hour at which the kind suggestion to overwrite the boot sector was offered during the initial attempted repair.

This disk is currently slaved in another PC. Windows explorer sees the disk as 8mg. The previous sectors are not visible. No data has been written to the disk, other than the new boot sector.

Any advice other than several stiff drinks?

Thanks

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by paulmetot

Two partitions on the disk

The only thing recognized is the new boot sector

I will give the r-tools a try

by cg it

if this is XP, you could try a fixboot or fixmbr after booting to the CD and see if that works.

by paulmetot

Was Windows 2000 Pro

Had tried to repair the boot sector, that is how the dynamic overlay was lost.

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