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Is there any way to recover the MBR and partition tables?

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  • Hard Drives
  • Partition
  • Windows XP
  • Storage
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April 19, 2007 3:27:30 AM

without having a previous backup???

This is what happened to me, please tell me if I can recover my data...

I had 3 NTFS partitions and Windows XP installed on my system:

C: 24gb (this partition I used for installing windows xp and all applications)
D: 75gb (like 30gb of metal mp3's...right now I'm crying...can't believe it)
E: 40gb (other stuff)
Unpartitioned space: 13gb

Then I made a linux partition of about 6gb and installed Slackware 9. I installed LILO in the master boot record and told it to recognize my Windows XP partition ( C: ).

I reboot and it doesn't boot. An "L" appears after "Booting from IDE....OK" message. I tried like 3 times and nothing.

I insert Windows XP and go to the recovery console and did this (I had no idea of what I was doing): FIXBOOT C:

Still nothing...

I reboot and insert Windows XP and it says I only have one partition ( C: ) of like 135gb, 10mb space left and FAT32...

I cry in despair, delete the partition (the only one) and reinstalled Windows XP.

I don't have a MBR backup.

Is there anything I can do to recover my previous partition and data after rewriting the partition table???

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April 19, 2007 5:01:35 AM

Sorry to say, your MBR is now gone, since you re-wrote it. The only thing you could do is salvage parts of it (If you could actually get any at all, considering it was NTFS) and salvage the data.
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