fixing mbr (windows on diff drive)

[iLLestOne]

I was just wondering how to fix the mbr on a drive that windows is not installed on? I have data on there (data recovery programs see the data, demo's) but windows says that the drive is unformated.

I've seen that you can fixmbr, and fixboot, but when I put the cd in all it showed to choose from was C:, where windows was installed in. It didn't let me choose D: (my corrupted hd)

So i was wondering how to fix my problem.

THANKS in advance

 

[iLLestOne]

no one ever ran into this problem before? I must be special

 

[bchur83]

chkdsk should repair any problems through windows. Have you tried that yet?

 

[Andy71600]

Have you tried rewriting the mbr?

to re-write your mbr:

1. Boot into dos with a floppy
2. type fdisk /mbr

 

[Bigdogbmx]

If its corrupted or unformatted (or formatted in a non windows filesystem at least) It may not show in my computer or DOS etc. Have you tried control panel/administrative tools/computer management/storage/disk manager? I havent used XP but in win2k that shows ALL drives as opposed to just windows filesystem drives. then maybe you can work out the problem. If it has a little red stop sign thing it may not have a wondows 'signature' and therefore not showing up as healthy or active or whatever. With some drives i had in an old SCSI system I had to 'sign' the drives then format them for them to be recognised in windows or dos.