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sausme   07-23-2009 at 01:44:32 AM

Hi there.

I own a SATA Maxtor 500GB hard disc and it has bad partition tables (that's what Partition Magic says). I've read that fixmbr could fix this issue but I'm affraid that if I do it my data could get lost, forever, so I'd like to know any tool to make a backup of the data or to solve this problem in the less risky way.

Any sugestion is more than well recived. Thanks!!

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Bronze Storage badge r_manic   07-23-2009 at 03:47:06 AM

You can try building an image of your entire disk first, just so you can restore that in case trying to restore your partitions wipes out your data.

To backup your disk, use Clonezilla.

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sausme   07-23-2009 at 05:29:40 AM

Thank you for taking the time!!!

I'm reading about clonezilla and think I'm going to use it. I'll tell how it goes.

Thanks again.

Regards

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cesta   08-04-2009 at 09:31:13 AM

You can image the drive with the free backup software EASEUS Todo Backup http://www.todo-backup.com first, or fix mbr with Partition Table Doctor http://www.ptdd.com.

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