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<blockquote data-quote="azhrei_fje" data-source="post: 4145201" data-attributes="member: 12966"><p>That <strong>/MBR</strong> option is gone in some of the latest Windows releases because there is no FDISK any more!</p><p></p><p>It's easier to just boot a Linux LiveCD and copy your data off using that.</p><p></p><p>When my wife's WinXP blew up (well, not literally) it couldn't access the NTFS partition data. Apparently there's some area of the NTFS partition that is critical and if it can't be accessed, Windows won't allow access to the partition at all. Enter the Knoppix LiveCD!</p><p></p><p>I boot the CD and the network is DHCP-activated. So I mount the NTFS partition read-only and start copying the data to a network server. There are a few files that can't be accessed, but fortunately most of them are DLLs or EXEs and not data files. In the end the drive had to be replaced (as a format didn't clean it up, ie. hardware failure). So WinXP was reinstalled and updated and I was able to copy the data back to the wife's machine. It took a while to do because Knoppix uses "generic" drivers that are not tuned for the hardware, hence they use somewhat conservative timings and such, but Dell had told my wife that she would SOL. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":(" title="Frown :(" data-smilie="3"data-shortname=":(" /></p><p></p><p>Of course, my wife and I have had disagreements in the past about me being her Tech Support, which is why she called Dell. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> But after this incident, I don't get arguments from her any more so I have once again taken on the Tech Support job. When she goes to Vista, she'll be on her own...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="azhrei_fje, post: 4145201, member: 12966"] That [b]/MBR[/b] option is gone in some of the latest Windows releases because there is no FDISK any more! It's easier to just boot a Linux LiveCD and copy your data off using that. When my wife's WinXP blew up (well, not literally) it couldn't access the NTFS partition data. Apparently there's some area of the NTFS partition that is critical and if it can't be accessed, Windows won't allow access to the partition at all. Enter the Knoppix LiveCD! I boot the CD and the network is DHCP-activated. So I mount the NTFS partition read-only and start copying the data to a network server. There are a few files that can't be accessed, but fortunately most of them are DLLs or EXEs and not data files. In the end the drive had to be replaced (as a format didn't clean it up, ie. hardware failure). So WinXP was reinstalled and updated and I was able to copy the data back to the wife's machine. It took a while to do because Knoppix uses "generic" drivers that are not tuned for the hardware, hence they use somewhat conservative timings and such, but Dell had told my wife that she would SOL. :( Of course, my wife and I have had disagreements in the past about me being her Tech Support, which is why she called Dell. ;) But after this incident, I don't get arguments from her any more so I have once again taken on the Tech Support job. When she goes to Vista, she'll be on her own... [/QUOTE]
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