Hi Falconer. This is not a boot disk so mbr is not really the issue. It is
just a partition table I believe. Well it might be but when I had to do it
before I actually corrupted the partition table. I forget how I did it but
I did. On a different machine not the one where I am having this issue.
Remember the disk in question has two partitions on it. The second one is
not a problem Only the first. Anyway I know there is a free partition
table fixer out there but I just can't seem to find it again. Thought I'd
come here and ask but if you don't know of one that's OK.

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George Hester
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"CBFalconer" <cbfalconer@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> George Hester wrote:
> >
> > I located a free partition table fixer on the Net a couple months
> > ago and used it successfully. I need it again and was wondering
> > if anyone knew of a free one on the Net because I can't find it.
> > For some reason it looks like the first partition on one of my
> > drives got hosed. I tried to run chkdsk on it but when it got to
> > the last part checking data it just stopped at 0% complete and
> > went no further. Thanks
>
> fdisk /mbr. Otherwise boot up Knoppix and run gparted. In 25
> years of using PCs I have never seen a fouled partition table. You
> must have faulty drives, controllers, memory, or something. Fix
> that first.
>
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