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Hi guys,
I've been putting together a PC and decided to do a full hard drive clean -- it was some application off of "Ultimate Boot CD" (called WipeDisk).
Looking back, I don't know why I did it because it seems to have screwed up things really badly -- I was having some trouble with the Windows XP CD (had to reinstall due to new motherboard) and it kept defaulting to that annoying OEM recovery partition (this is a hard drive from an HP pc)... I just decided to wipe out the whole drive, but it seems the application I used removed the MBR and Partition Table as well, seemingly rendering fdisk completely useless.
When is use fdisk or fdisk /mbr it tells me "Invalid Drive Designation" and aborts, does anyone have any ideas on how to get this HD back up and running?
The BIOS still recognizes the disk, and certain partitioning tools also see it -- I just can't access the MBR any more. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
-Jon
I've been putting together a PC and decided to do a full hard drive clean -- it was some application off of "Ultimate Boot CD" (called WipeDisk).
Looking back, I don't know why I did it because it seems to have screwed up things really badly -- I was having some trouble with the Windows XP CD (had to reinstall due to new motherboard) and it kept defaulting to that annoying OEM recovery partition (this is a hard drive from an HP pc)... I just decided to wipe out the whole drive, but it seems the application I used removed the MBR and Partition Table as well, seemingly rendering fdisk completely useless.
When is use fdisk or fdisk /mbr it tells me "Invalid Drive Designation" and aborts, does anyone have any ideas on how to get this HD back up and running?
The BIOS still recognizes the disk, and certain partitioning tools also see it -- I just can't access the MBR any more. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
-Jon
