On 16 April 2010 12:54, javadayaz <javada...@gmail.com> wrote: > Quote my brother: > "I don't think it's a sector issue because its practically impossible for > every sector to have become corrupt overnight. Rather, I think the mbr may > have got corrupted somehow and needs to be rebuilt but that wud need to wipe > the whole thing. Is there a recover utility that could build it leaving what > was there before intact?" >
I would refer him to:- http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk and specifically.. http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/Damaged_Hard_Disk Rather than leap to possible solutions such as "wipe the mbr", I'd recommend more diagnostics. Cheers, Al. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/