/comp/ - Boot sector fucked. Can it be fixed?

Name: Anonymous 2006-10-23 10:52

Long story short, I ran FIXBOOT in the Windows Recovery Console but when it was going to detect the file system it decided it was FAT instead of NTFS. Is there any way to fix this without formatting?

Name: Anonymous 2006-10-23 11:08

www.opera.com

Name: Anonymous 2006-10-23 11:21 (sage)

I've tried Opera, sucks about as hard as IE.

Name: Anonymous 2006-10-23 11:27

convert X: /fs:ntfs

where X is the partition you want to convert. irreversible (ntfs>fat) w/o reformatting.

Name: Anonymous 2006-10-23 11:45

ignore the above
1. make a boot disk w/ fdisk on it
2. boot off that disk
3. run with the undocumented "fdisk /mbr" command
4. ?????
5. profit

Name: Anonymous 2006-10-23 12:08

>>5 doesn't seem very sure about what he's saying, don't listen to him.

Instead, go to www.opera.com, install www.opera.com on the boxen with the problem and the problem will be fixed.

Name: Anonymous 2006-10-23 12:51

I think you're screwed. If it couldn't detect NTFS data structures in the partition, they're probably not there. Meaning your partition is gone.

Name: Anonymous 2006-10-23 13:38 (sage)

FORMATTING DOESN'T ERASE YOUR DATA

Name: Anonymous 2006-10-23 13:40

>>6

I tried opera is sucked almost as hard as IE

Name: Anonymous 2006-10-23 13:41

>>8

C:\> format c:

Name: Anonymous 2006-10-23 16:26 (sage)

>>10
FORMATTING DOESN'T ERASE YOUR DATA

Boot sector fucked. Can it be fixed?

1 Name: Anonymous 2006-10-23 10:52

2 Name: Anonymous 2006-10-23 11:08

3 Name: Anonymous 2006-10-23 11:21 (sage)

4 Name: Anonymous 2006-10-23 11:27

5 Name: Anonymous 2006-10-23 11:45

6 Name: Anonymous 2006-10-23 12:08

7 Name: Anonymous 2006-10-23 12:51

8 Name: Anonymous 2006-10-23 13:38 (sage)

9 Name: Anonymous 2006-10-23 13:40

10 Name: Anonymous 2006-10-23 13:41

11 Name: Anonymous 2006-10-23 16:26 (sage)