Broken MBR & Boot Record on Anti-virused Ghosted image

[akloster2]

Well, a month ago, I Ghosted my 6-gig drive to a 9-gig. All was well, until Satruday night I decided to run a virus scan. Nortons told me the MBR changed. It asked if I wanted to change it back. I didn't think about the disk upgrade and its probably impact on the MBR, so I said "sure, go ahead" (you know the button). Then it told my my Boot Record changed. I figured, what the heck. Nortons knows best Fix it for me! (same button). Needless to say, now I can't access the drive. I am running on a backup (the original 6-gig). I tried booting from floppy and doing a fdisk /mbr. No help. Fdisk now reports a 6-gig partition and 3-gigs of unpartitioned space.

I ordered Symantec Utilities (Norton Disk Doctor) to try to fix it, but maybe somebody has another good idea?

Thanks.

 

[butchrecon]

When you do a fdisk /mbr you must also do a sys c: (from a boot floppy). With out sysing (is that a word? it is now) the drive there will not be any way to access it. Give that a try. James Collins
Field Service Engineer
A+, MCP

email: butchrecon@skyenet.net

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[akloster2]

I thought about Sys-ing the drive, but didn't want to do any further damage. Besides, I can't even set my default to the C: drive. It gives me &quot;abort, retry, or fail&quot; when I do C: <cr>. So I doubt SYS will even work. With the partition table messed up, I don't want to start writing things to the disk.

I have checked with other people, and nobody has a clue. So, I guess I wait for Norton Disk Doctor to arrive and give that a shot. Kind of interesting that the only way to fix something that Norton Antivirus does is to buy Norton Disk Doctor. Stroke of genius!

 

[grygst76]

you need to format c: again it cannot read the partition yets since it hasn't been formatted try removing both partitions set the partition again and format then run ghost That normally works I had the same problem once and did those steps first ,,,had no problems after give it a shot!!