hd problem

[David A. Bandel]

On Sun, 17 Aug 2003 14:23:59 +1000
Keith Antoine <kantoine at optusnet.com.au> wrote:

> Sorry this is really M$ related but:
> I had a customer with a constant rebooting machine, which we found was
> a motherboard problem, PSU was fine and also switch was. So I used the
> latest Gigabyte motherboard as a replacement GA-700N-400Pro, which was
> an advanced board on the older 333 motherboard that went.
> 
> Installed MB strted the machine up with the XP cd in as boot to access
> R (repair) so as to reconfigure the hd system to boot on new board,
> done this before. However it all of a sudden had just a C: drive
> whilst it used to have AFAICR C,D,E,F. It now sees only a c: of 80 gig
> and will not access repair.
> 
> Looking at the drive in dos it sees c: only and If I access the R and
> fixmbr it says its not a standard mbr. All we did was change the
> motherboard, could this wipe the mbr and scaramble it? Is there a way
> to fix without losing all the data? It looks to me as if there is no
> way out but to reformat and re partition etc.

Do you have a backup of your data?

If no, boot using Knoppix and pull all the data you need off.  Once
you've verified you have all the data and it's in good shape, you can do
pretty much whatever you need to to get things going again.

Then as sson as possible, convince this customer M$ _will_ eventually
cost them their data and if it means anything to them they should
consider migrating to Linux.

But _all_ systems with important data need backups.

Ciao,

David A. Bandel
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