Alex Ethridge
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I have a hard disk here that died right in front of me. We had identified some bad surface area and were in process of copying the data to backup in preparation for replacing it.
We restarted the computer and it came up with "Missing Operating System". The boot sector seems to be gone along with the partition table. I've run Active Partition Recovery to no avail. I'm sure that if I were skilled at direct disk editing, I could correct the problem well enough to recover something; but, I have no expertise there.
Utilities that run under Windows probably won't help as the data is in an area that is seen by Windows as "unallocated space".
What utilities are there that might help?
We restarted the computer and it came up with "Missing Operating System". The boot sector seems to be gone along with the partition table. I've run Active Partition Recovery to no avail. I'm sure that if I were skilled at direct disk editing, I could correct the problem well enough to recover something; but, I have no expertise there.
Utilities that run under Windows probably won't help as the data is in an area that is seen by Windows as "unallocated space".
What utilities are there that might help?