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Error on Hard Disk 2 message
I have a 2 month old Dell Studio Mini that has been great up until a few weeks ago. My wife went to start the computer and got a black screen that said something like "Windows did not shut down properly the last time, Do you want to start in SafeMode?" When she got it started a tool bar was missing. When I got home i ran Norton DiskDoctor and immediately got this message: Error on Hard Disk 2, The Master Partition Table is Unreadable, The Master Partition Table is Physically Damaged, the only way to correct this is from a low level format. I ran Windows SystemRestore but when I ran DiskDoctor again I got the same message. It's under warranty so maybe I'll have to get with the Tech guys at Dell and let them figure it out. Just curious if any of you have had this problem and if so, how you resolved it. Thanks -- tipcom1 |
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Error on Hard Disk 2 message
tipcom1 wrote:
I have a 2 month old Dell Studio Mini that has been great up until a few weeks ago. My wife went to start the computer and got a black screen that said something like "Windows did not shut down properly the last time, Do you want to start in SafeMode?" When she got it started a tool bar was missing. When I got home i ran Norton DiskDoctor and immediately got this message: Error on Hard Disk 2, The Master Partition Table is Unreadable, The Master Partition Table is Physically Damaged, the only way to correct this is from a low level format. I ran Windows SystemRestore but when I ran DiskDoctor again I got the same message. It's under warranty so maybe I'll have to get with the Tech guys at Dell and let them figure it out. Just curious if any of you have had this problem and if so, how you resolved it. Thanks I would not use Norton Disk Doctor for anything. It was useful back in the Win98/ME days, but not with XP and absolutely not with Vista. Do you have two hard drives in the computer or two partitions? Is the second partition a recovery partition? What "tool bar" is missing? After rebooting the computer, are things fine now? Does another user account seem OK? Please fill in the missing details if you want more help. Malke -- MS-MVP Elephant Boy Computers - Don't Panic! http://www.elephantboycomputers.com/#FAQ |
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Error on Hard Disk 2 message
"tipcom1" wrote in message
... I have a 2 month old Dell Studio Mini that has been great up until a few weeks ago. My wife went to start the computer and got a black screen that said something like "Windows did not shut down properly the last time, Do you want to start in SafeMode?" When she got it started a tool bar was missing. When I got home i ran Norton DiskDoctor and immediately got this message: Error on Hard Disk 2, The Master Partition Table is Unreadable, The Master Partition Table is Physically Damaged, the only way to correct this is from a low level format. I ran Windows SystemRestore but when I ran DiskDoctor again I got the same message. It's under warranty so maybe I'll have to get with the Tech guys at Dell and let them figure it out. Just curious if any of you have had this problem and if so, how you resolved it. Thanks -- tipcom1 Any tool that advises you to do a low level format should be removed and discarded as hopelessly and unusably out of data. For perhaps the last decade, low-level formats are done only at the manufacturing level. If you found a tool that permitted a low-level format, you would likely permanently damage the drive and take the system out of warranty. More specific and detailed information is needed to help you with this. HTH -pk |
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Error on Hard Disk 2 message
Why not you used some data recovery software for your hard disk like stellar phoenix hard disk recovery software i don't know the URL of the site but you can search on the net. May it helps you... Cheers... -- jakati |