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Master Boot Record problem

3 posts · originally from https://geek.digit.in/community/threads/master-boot-record-problem.15156/

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rachitar Original post #1
Sep 7, 2005 at 10:48 PM
Well my friend had 2 3 partitions,all ext3.
He had 2 primary partitions,lets say C,D and one logical say E.
Linux was installed on D and E was also accessible,but C previously had windows which he had formated to ext3 long ago.
Now he wanted to utilize the space of that C partition thus he edited the Master Boot Record thinking that it would work as format a partition.
It so happened that now the MBR sees that there are only 2 primary partitions and no logical partition.
Even the Linux OS on D is not getting booted.
So i think the only option he has is to reinstall everything.
However he had some very important data on the D and E partitons which he wants to recover,but i dont know how.
So is there a way to recover the data on D and E or better yet put everything as it was before.
Thanks
R
Sep 7, 2005 at 11:15 PM
Try DATA RECOVERY .www.r-tt.com .But these is only 40 % chance that u can recover the data. No DATA RECOVERY software recovers all thing.
expertno.1
Sep 8, 2005 at 5:28 PM
However he had some very important data on the D and E partitons which he wants to recover,but i dont know how.
So is there a way to recover the data on D and E or better yet put everything as it was before.

use Getdata back

use Zero Assumption Recovery (recovered 30 gb using this softie for me)