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After almost three weeks of trying various tools,
etc., I've finally managed to repair the damaged boot sector. Thank you
very much to to Klaus and Costakis for trying to help. None of the linux
tools I tried worked. Manually trying to fix the partition table didn't
work either. Eventually, I found a Windows tool that fixed it in
place. It appears that I have everthing back to normal with all my files
and data intact.
As far as I can tell, whatever was written over my
boot sector wasn't the knoppix USB stick stuff. I could be wrong about
that, but to my insufficiently knowledgeable eye, it didn't seem to be
that. I still don't know what did it. The drive seems to be
fine.
I apologize for my slow responses on this
matter. Of course, the dead drive had my email on it. Emailing by
phone is a pain. 8(
Needless to say, I have backed up my drive again
(raw and data.) I had backups of a lot of it, but it would have been a big
pain to restore and I would have lost a lot of recent stuff. We all know
to backup regularly, but I let it go too long...
Thanks again to all who tried to help.
Jim
P.S. Even though the linux tools didn't fix the problem, Knoppix was of great help in backing everything up and trying to solve this problem. |