Partition Table Broken

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"miffy900" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:18f1801c41b96$332c1d70$a101280a@phx.gbl...
> I have just finished the reinstallment of a new Windows XP
> installation, and used something called "PC Data Recovery"
> to try and get some files back from the installation past,
> although knowing that this program doesn't support bad
> sectors, I ran CHKDSK and it reported that no bad sectors
> were on my disk.
> I ran it anyway, and then while scanning the drive, a very
> weird memory allocation error message came up and seconds
> later, a STOP error occured.
> The blue screen showed up something with alot of hex
> numbers and something about "DISK SECTOR" blah, blah.
> The screen was a bit distorted and the letters were
> showing somesort of characters in binary format.
> Now, I cannot startup my computer, my BIOS reports no
> operating system found, and FDISK cannot access it either.
>
> I went to the aid of a respected computer technician, and
> he said, while I was scanning the disk for any recoverable
> files, it must've somehow broken my partition table on the
> disk, erasing any access to any logical drives.
>
> Does anyone know to fix the partition table? Or this whole
> solution so I can still run my computer?

Here are a few tools you could try:

www.acronis.com (RecoveryExpert)
http://www.restorer2000.com/r2k.htm
http://www.hddrecovery.com.au
http://bootmaster.filerecovery.biz