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Originally posted by Hypo:
I dont know what happened, but Norton Antivirus asked me if I wanted to innoculate the disk since it it had changed and i said yes. I have 2 40 GBs harddisk, partitioned into 2 each, so C D E F.
When I boot now, windows does not start and I cant read C drive, getting the message - "Invalid Media ype Reading Drive C"
The harddisk is physically alright since its new, and its other partition is reading alrigth. I have important information on this partition and need it. What might be the error?
I read about the fdisk /mbr command that will rewrite the master boot record? Can I use it without losing any data?
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I can try to help. What operating system do you use? Do you know what are 1) partition table; 2) boot record; 3) FATs; 4) root in case of Win9x or $MFT etc. in case of WinNT or Win2000? Anyway do you have a tool like Norton Disk Editor to save some physical sectors before trying fdisk? It is risky to write something to crashed disk if you are not sure what are you doing.