Simviation Forum - Bad experience, Lost HD

Reply #15 - Jun 2^nd, 2005 at 3:38pm

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Install, with backup of the original in oldmbr.dat
Code:

sbminst -t us -d 128 -b oldmbr.dat

uninstall, replaces the smbinst one with the original one saved in oldmbr.dat
Code:

sbminst -u  oldmbr.dat

For more info, print chapter 4 that includes the instructions for using it (quite technical)

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Reply #16 - Jun 3^rd, 2005 at 5:55am

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Could you get more explecit, sort of idiots approach to doing this, please.

I made an Autoexec file with " sbminst -t us -d 128 -b oldmbr.dat " and run it in win98.
On reboot the Boot Mngr came up showing :-

flags no. type name
none previous mbr
"-" quit to bios
"-" pwr off
"-" reboot
D FD00 "-" floppy
D FDF0 "-" floppy
D HD 0 "-" HD
D CD00 "-" CD ROM

Not understanding what to do, I tried all the above, and the other menus using tab and only the reboot worked.

Can you advise on how to use the above to try and find my four lost partitions ?.

The uninstall worked too.

tHE "oldmbr.dat" says:-

Invalid Partition Table
Disk Error Reading OS
No Operating System
No Active Partition , thanx luke

PS. the state of my PC now is :-
as I mentioned at first, still have C:\ with Win98 running all the programs that were installed in win98 on C:\ partition.

win98 explorer & "PQ Partition Magic" program shows the HD with partition C:\ 11gb and the rest of the HD's 4 partitions disappeared with the remaining 89gb in extended partition ready to be partitioned & formated.

« Last Edit: Jun 3^rd, 2005 at 10:51am by luke »

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Reply #17 - Jun 3^rd, 2005 at 11:19am

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Disk wizard alas is not for IDEs.

Yes it is. I don't know what makes you think that.

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I love utils, but SP2 & nLite not at 266mb & 30mb. I'll rent your CD though.

SP2 is not a util, it's an essential upgrade that turns a flawed op sys into a good one. If you don't think it's worth downloading, Microsoft may send you a copy if you ask them nicely.

nlite is a little more than a util. It is an extremely powerful WinXP modifier with a user friendly interface. It allows the creation of your own customised operating system, or you can just integrate SP2 into a WinXP install disk so windows loads cleanly. It's only a 1 mb download, not 30!

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I also downloaded 6 floppies for installing XP in DOS.

6 x 1.44mb = 8.64mb, so how did you do that neat trick?

I mean WinXP is well over 500mb isn't it? Grin

I'm not sure what you downloaded there.

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Reply #18 - Jun 3^rd, 2005 at 12:21pm

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OK Congo,
sorry, xp setup bootdisks at :-
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;310994

I'll try mS nicely for sp2 cd.

downloaded nlite but it said it needs bla bla... to work, and that was another 26mb.

After Disk Wiz was run it said sorry there are no sata or scusi here. End of effort.

Where do I go wrong thnx luke

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Reply #19 - Jun 3^rd, 2005 at 1:17pm

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OK, the bootloader thing shows one drive and the MBR looks quite messed up...

You can try to get the data from the drive with Knoppix, but to be honest i think that the problem has to do with hardware (IE Dead disk)

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