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PI1536 MBR and partion table smashed/deleted completely, how do I get it initialized
I just a laptop Fujitsu Siemens PI1536, with Vista Home Premium. I was installed with one partion and Danisch language.
As I want to separate Windows programs and Data I want atleast 2 partions. I also want to use Norton Ghost for fast restore of Windows so I maded 3 partions and reinstalled Vista. I select English as I never use the Danisch language versions and properly never will. The delivered CD include several languages so this was streat forward and it worked. After a number of days one evening the PC started to shut down due to low battery and I grapped the supply and plugged it in with the main turned on. When I restarted the laptop it coudl not boot. I tryed to run Vista repair several times and it claimed to repair the MBR first and then the partion table, but no boot. Each time I ran repair it claimed to have repaired the partion table but no.
The laptop does not have a floppy so I need a bootable CD to run tools. I have allways used floppy tools like win98 fdisk, Norton NDD etc.
I found Ultimate Boot CD 4.1.1 and made a CD on my desktop. I ran some of the partion tools on it.
SPFdisk reported a number of overlapped partions and I used it to clear it all.
But now the tools and Vista install can not find the hardisk!
It is a Western Digital WD1600BEUS-22RST0-(S1 ???
Does anyone know a tool or way to get the hardisk up and running again. I do not care about recovering any data.
As I want to separate Windows programs and Data I want atleast 2 partions. I also want to use Norton Ghost for fast restore of Windows so I maded 3 partions and reinstalled Vista. I select English as I never use the Danisch language versions and properly never will. The delivered CD include several languages so this was streat forward and it worked. After a number of days one evening the PC started to shut down due to low battery and I grapped the supply and plugged it in with the main turned on. When I restarted the laptop it coudl not boot. I tryed to run Vista repair several times and it claimed to repair the MBR first and then the partion table, but no boot. Each time I ran repair it claimed to have repaired the partion table but no.
The laptop does not have a floppy so I need a bootable CD to run tools. I have allways used floppy tools like win98 fdisk, Norton NDD etc.
I found Ultimate Boot CD 4.1.1 and made a CD on my desktop. I ran some of the partion tools on it.
SPFdisk reported a number of overlapped partions and I used it to clear it all.
But now the tools and Vista install can not find the hardisk!
It is a Western Digital WD1600BEUS-22RST0-(S1 ???
Does anyone know a tool or way to get the hardisk up and running again. I do not care about recovering any data.
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Yea, I know that..... :^)
But the following statement leads me to believe it might be needed....
"SPFdisk reported a number of overlapped partions and I used it to clear it all.
But now the tools and Vista install can not find the hardisk!"
Since everything was cleared out, and Vista isnt seeing it....Thats why I suggested it....
But the following statement leads me to believe it might be needed....
"SPFdisk reported a number of overlapped partions and I used it to clear it all.
But now the tools and Vista install can not find the hardisk!"
Since everything was cleared out, and Vista isnt seeing it....Thats why I suggested it....
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Hej Sysexpert and Johnb6767
I fixed it. Johns answar inspired me to look at WDC.com. It turned out that they had an a complete .iso image that boots and include the needed CD driver. It displayed a mess in the partition table and deleted all when I deleted one.
To everybody please note there is a limit of 137GB in pre XP SP1 MS OS systems!
This may be why the older dos tool smashed it all, but I do not know.
www.bootdisk.com wipe tool may be just as usefull, but this web is meassy and did not locate it after several minutes of looking. Too bad with a low quality web design if they have great tools
I fixed it. Johns answar inspired me to look at WDC.com. It turned out that they had an a complete .iso image that boots and include the needed CD driver. It displayed a mess in the partition table and deleted all when I deleted one.
To everybody please note there is a limit of 137GB in pre XP SP1 MS OS systems!
This may be why the older dos tool smashed it all, but I do not know.
www.bootdisk.com wipe tool may be just as usefull, but this web is meassy and did not locate it after several minutes of looking. Too bad with a low quality web design if they have great tools
You can access larger HDD's in XP SP1, using the Enable BIG LBA reg mod....
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/305098
The article says 2000, but XP also applies..
Glad you figured it out....
Thanks!!
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/305098
The article says 2000, but XP also applies..
Glad you figured it out....
Thanks!!
Please note that he had already partitioned and installed previously without any special drivers, so I do not think it is a SATA driver issue.