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Old April 30th 09, 03:01 PM posted to microsoft.public.windows.vista.hardware_devices
tipcom1
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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


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Old April 30th 09, 03:29 PM posted to microsoft.public.windows.vista.hardware_devices
Malke[_2_]
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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
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Old May 2nd 09, 12:57 AM posted to microsoft.public.windows.vista.hardware_devices
Patrick Keenan
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Default Error on Hard Disk 2 message

"tipcom1" wrote in message
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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


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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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Old June 4th 09, 04:26 AM posted to microsoft.public.windows.vista.hardware_devices
jakati
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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...


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