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Data recovery - NTFS with broken MBR and MFT

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Tomasz Miklas
on March 19, 2008 7:33 PM | | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

This tale begins like...

One day I had a stupid idea - install updates for my Lenovo laptop. Full of faith in software abilities I've installed this and that, finally reaching 'System Backup and Recovery - system patch' if I remember well. Upgrade run without problems - donwload, unpack, reboot...

... here out tale ends and horror begins.

Unfortunately the upgrade has changed the MBR, overwriting boot-sector installed by GRUB, which in turn denied to start at all. This had obvious effect - I was unable to boot anything, neither Windows nor Linux :-(

After that it was just worse - sclerosis doesn't hurt, just trouble and advance... One mistake, one keystroke too far and we have disaster - thanks to myself, not update process in any way. I've decided to describe this story that you could avoid my pains by not making the same mistake... or if you did the same, to be able to recover from this terrible situation. First time is always the hard one - later you remember what you did wrong so keep reading.

This article is a translation of my other post published in Polish - Ratowanie danych z NTFS ze zniszczonym MBR i MFT.
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Migration finished

By
Tomasz Miklas
on March 18, 2008 1:21 PM | | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)
For quite a long time I was investigating different blogging platforms and finally I've made my choice - move away from WordPress to Movable Type. My requirements were rather simple - host entries, be able to publish code snippets, maybe some photos from time to time... I prefer static HTML instead of tons of PHP scripts running to display any single page. I don't expect being 'slashdotted' :-) I just want to keep it simple (K.I.S.S.).
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