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Can you tell me how i can take the sector-by-sector image of its data? And i suppose that i should do it in dos?

Well, it me again. I had problems with my harddisk, the partition table to be more exact, but now that's fixed, now my other harddisk is screwing up my brain. It was all good until my brother installed a game i think (Conquer Online) and the harddisk could not be read. Every time I boot the computer now, i get this error screen saying that the harddisk is "BAD" and then i have to press F1. Then when trying to go into windows, it load and loads and loads, until i just disconnect the harddisk, then it goes into windows without anything unnormal. I've tried to check for errors in partition magic, and i got this: Error #1511 Bad restart record format Error #45 CRC error in data One important think you should know is that my harddisk it making some wierd noises. I have some very important files in there and i would not want it to be lost. Can anyone tell me what i can do? Harddisk = Fujitsu MPG3409AT E (40G) (Im running windows from another harddisk, and the other harddisk is not connected) thanks.

YES!!!! I managed to correct the partition table with Testdisk!! but now i want to change the disk to "Primary Bootable" so it can boot.

jaclaz : what should i do when inside testdisk? In the Seagate website, it sais that my harddrive is divided up like this Cylinders: 1023 Heads: 256 Sectors: 63 When i go inside testdisk and go into change geometry is sais like this Cylinders: 4866 Heads: 255 Sectors 63 Sector size: 512 Should i change this?

I think this might help, it how Harddisk 1 is divided up: http://www.seagate.com/support/disc/specs/ata/st340015a.html

Harddrive 1 (the one with the bigtime problems) Seagate ST340015A (40GB) Harddrive 2 (this one works... i think..) Fujitsu MPG3409AT (40GB) Harddrive 1 was partioned like this i think(roughly) : C:\ = ~19GB (Where the OS is; Used about ~13GB) D:\ = ~20GB (Used about ~16)

I've checked the cables, and i dont get that message anymore, however i still have problems with my Partition table, same errors and everything. I'll try putting the harddrive in another computer and see if i can take the information from there. But the thing is, would the other computer recognise it? In Partinfo, it said that the harddrive is like 90TB or something, wouldnt that be a problem? When I tried to install windows, it said that the drive was not compatible with windows. It also said [MBR] beside the drive name. But why, there is no problems in this drive.

2 days ago I opened my computer to put in my other 40GB harddisk. It all went as planned until i first opened the computer and booted it using Partition Magic 8.0. Then this thing appeared and said like: "Cylinder range in harddrive unconsistent. Do you want Partition Magic to fix it?" Usually i thought well, this is Partition Magic, a reliable program, so I pressed Yes. Then in Partition Magic i saw that my original harddisk with all my stuff in it, was currupt. It said, "Partition Table Error #110" So I panicked and rebooted the computer. Then i got this message saying, "Media cable faliure, check cable" or something. Then I really got scared. I then went into my other computer and read about this error ("Partition Table Error #110"). It seemed that it was something called a partition table, and that the values in it were wrong. After alot of researching, i found out there was a program in the partition magic boot disk that could edit the partition tables. I opened up ptedit.exe and i didnt understand a thing. Later i did this. There is a program called partinfo, it tells you whats wrong and what the values should be. So i started the program but i couldnt read it because there was much information and i couldnt scroll up in DOS. So i did this: "A:\> partinfo.exe > partinfo.txt". Then i had the information in the txt document. The problem was that i couldnt read it cause i didnt have the edit.com program. And my other computer doesnt have floppy drive. So i took the disk to school and put in edit.com. I also took out this document. Partition Information Program Sep 16 2002 - DOS32 Version Copyright © 1994-2002, PowerQuest Corporation Permission is granted for this utility to be freely copied so long as it is not modified in any way. All other rights are reserved. PowerQuest, makers of PartitionMagic®, Drive Image and DriveCopy, can be reached at Voice: 801-226-6834 Web site: http://www.powerquest.com/support/ Fax: 801-226-8941 Email: help@powerquest.com BiosExtensions: 0x2100 Subsets (0x00000005): Access EDD EGeo 0x0000 0 0 0 78165360 0 512 ============================================================================Disk 0: 4865 Cylinders, 255 Heads, 63 Sectors/Track.BiosExtensions: 0x2100 Subsets (0x00000005): Access EDD The BIOS supports INT 13h extensions for this drive.============================ Partition Tables ==============================Partition -----Begin---- ------End----- Start NumSector # Boot Cyl Head Sect FS Cyl Head Sect Sect Sects---------- - ---- ---- ---- ---- -- ---- ---- ---- ---------- ---------- 0 3 80 [ 0 1 1] 0F [1023 254 63] 63 92630727 [Large Drive Placeholders] 0 1 1 5765 254 63 Actual ValuesError #109: Partition ends after end of disk. ucEndCylinder (5765) must be less than 4865.Warning: The OS reported too few cylinders. 4865 cylinders are present. 63 0 72 [ 256 97 36] 0D [ 370 10 20] 543908792 543450478 [Large Drive Placeholders] 33856 192 57 2148 250 60 Actual ValuesWarning: Partition boot flag expected to be 0x00 or 0x80, not 0x72. This should not be a problem. Error #107: Partition begins after end of disk. ucBeginCylinder (33856) must be less than 2149. Info: Partition didn't begin on head boundary. ucBeginHead expected to be 0 or 1, not 192. Info: Partition didn't begin on head boundary. ucBeginSector expected to be 1, not 57. Info: Partition didn't end on cylinder boundary. ucEndHead expected to be 254, not 250.Info: Partition didn't end on cylinder boundary. ucEndSector expected to be 63, not 60. Error #110: Number of sectors in partition is inconsistent. ucSectors = 543450478 end - begin = 3785581934 63 1 43 [ 370 10 21] 2B [ 371 65 44] 1818575978 1922328096 [Large Drive Placeholders] 47665 30 24 36252 129 47 Actual ValuesWarning: Partition boot flag expected to be 0x00 or 0x80, not 0x43. This should not be a problem. Error #107: Partition begins after end of disk. ucBeginCylinder (47665) must be less than 2149. Info: Partition didn't begin on head boundary. ucBeginHead expected to be 0 or 1, not 30. Info: Partition didn't begin on head boundary. ucBeginSector expected to be 1, not 24. Error #109: Partition ends after end of disk. ucEndCylinder (36252) must be less than 2149. Info: Partition didn't end on cylinder boundary. ucEndHead expected to be 254, not 129. Info: Partition didn't end on cylinder boundary. ucEndSector expected to be 63, not 47. Error #116: Starting sector of partition is inconsistent. ulStartSect = 1818575978 Begin C,H,S = 765740138 Error #110: Number of sectors in partition is inconsistent. ucSectors = 1922328096 end - begin = 4111623712 63 2 20 [ 371 111 45] 74 [ 372 97 50] 167774796 0 [Large Drive Placeholders] 10443 127 1 10443 126 63 Actual ValuesWarning: Partition boot flag expected to be 0x00 or 0x80, not 0x20. This should not be a problem. Error #107: Partition begins after end of disk. ucBeginCylinder (10443) must be less than 2149. Info: Partition didn't begin on head boundary. ucBeginHead expected to be 0 or 1, not 127. Error #109: Partition ends after end of disk. ucEndCylinder (10443) must be less than 2149. Info: Partition didn't end on cylinder boundary. ucEndHead expected to be 254, not 126. Info: This partition unexpectedly contains no sectors. Disk[0], Part[63]: Warning #113: EPBR partition starting at 63 overlaps extended partition. Disk[0], Part[167774796]: Error #113: Logic starting at 167774796 overlaps extended partition. Disk[0], Part[167774796]: Info: Logical starting at 167774796 is not one head away from EPBR. Disk[0], Part[543908792]: Error #113: Logic starting at 543908792 overlaps extended partition. Disk[0], Part[543908792]: Info: Logical starting at 543908792 is not one head away from EPBR. Disk[0], Part[1818575978]: Error #113: Logic starting at 1818575978 overlaps extended partition. Disk[0], Part[1818575978]: Info: Logical starting at 1818575978 is not one head away from EPBR.BiosExtensions: 0x2100 Subsets (0x00000005): Access EDD EGeo 0x0000 0 0 0 80063424 0 512 ============================================================================Disk 1: 4983 Cylinders, 255 Heads, 63 Sectors/Track.BiosExtensions: 0x2100 Subsets (0x00000005): Access EDD The BIOS supports INT 13h extensions for this drive.============================ Partition Tables ==============================Partition -----Begin---- ------End----- Start NumSector # Boot Cyl Head Sect FS Cyl Head Sect Sect Sects---------- - ---- ---- ---- ---- -- ---- ---- ---- ---------- ---------- 0 0 00 0 1 1 07 [1023 254 63] 63 80035767 [Large Drive Placeholders] 0 1 1 4981 254 63 Actual Values ==================================================================================Disk 0: 16857.3 Megabytes============================= Partition Information ==============================Volume Partition Partition Start TotalLetter:Label Type Status Size MB Sector # Sector Sectors------------- --------------- -------- -------- ---------- - ---------- ---------- ExtendedX Pri,Boot 45229.8 0 3 63 92630727 EPBR Log 81921.3 None - 63 167774733 Type 74 Log,Boot 0.0 63 2 167774796 0 Type 0D Log,Boot 265356.7 63 0 543908792 543450478 Type 2B Log,Boot 938636.8 63 1 1818575978 1922328096==================================================================================Disk 1: 39087.8 Megabytes============================= Partition Information ==============================Volume Partition Partition Start TotalLetter:Label Type Status Size MB Sector # Sector Sectors------------- --------------- -------- -------- ---------- - ---------- ---------- QNX, UN*X Pri 39080.0 0 0 63 80035767 Unallocated Pri 7.8 None - 80035830 16065 The thing is that how do i correct the problems. And with what program. !!

Hi! When I was trying my unattended windows in VMware when I got this message in the windows install. I could screenshoot it but it's in swedish so you wont understand so much if you're not swedish. Anyways, it goes right in the beginning, but then this message appeares and sais that i dont have a harddrive. I checked the configuration in VMware but it looks fine and the same as the guide. Im running Win2000 with 4gig harddisk and 192mb ram. What should i do Thanks