Re: OT - Cloning and CopyWipe

Doc wrote:
On Wed, 15 Jul 2009 11:24:12 -0700, Bruce S wrote:

Lone Haranguer wrote:
Bruce S wrote:
Frank Howell wrote:
Bruce S wrote:
Robert Bonomi wrote:
Bruce S <bruce.snell@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
At $80/hour for labor, versus $71. for a new drive, I passed on
letting them help.
Well, the trivial way to 'recover' this screwed-up drive is to
spend the $71, for an 'exact duplicate' of the drive you have,
and then do _exactly_ the same thing you did before, using the
new drive as source and the screwed-up drive as destination.
<grin>
Of course, that would have the secondary benefit of giving me a
spare drive, just in case something breaks on the first one.
All I would need to do is clone the drive. <G>

Bruce
Bruce, do you have the ability to boot up into Dos? If so maybe
you can use the Fdisk command with the MBR switch, which rewrites
the MBR. http://tinyurl.com/2u7rrt

XP does not have an option for booting into DOS, however, it might
be possible to download a dos boot disk.

Bruce

The Command Prompt listed under "accessories" won't help? LZ

Not without DOS and DOS commands to use at the command prompt.

Bruce

Start>Run type CMD

At the prompt type diskpart /?

run diskpart on the D: drive or what ever letter it is. XP does have
Dos commands.

You can also run format d:

diskpart was unable to fix the problem.

I called WD, explained the problem to them, and they are sending me a
replacement drive.

Bruce



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