I accidentally deleted the MBR/partition manager for my storage hard drive which practically has my life on it. Portfolio, photos, resume, videos, all the important stuff. I can't access the harddrive in windows. Is there anything at all possible I can do to recover or fix my hard drive? thank you for helping me.
AMD Athlon 64 3200+
ASUS A8N-E N-force 4ultra mobo
1gb Geil PC 3200 dual channel ram
160 gb. seagate hd
120 gb. maxtor hd.
xfx 6800gs
Thermaltake Soprano case
Antec 500w psu
In Acronis open the Recovery Expert tool. Tell it to try to recover a partition. Select the advanced and manual modes. What this will do is look at the old MBR and see if it could read anything from there (like the fixmbr command only acronis allows you to choose the repair) then it scans the entire drive, it just looks at the type of data in each sector so it works pretty fast. You will see a list of possible partitions. Select the one that looks correct and follow the on screen directions. Once your back in Acronis' main screen you will now see your drive with a drive letter. We aren't done yet though the change doesn't actually take effect until you commit it to the drive (there should be a little race flag icon at the top of the screen) that will write the MBR and not touch any other portion of the drive and it should just work.
