ir3045 Hard Drive Problem

[Guest]

I pulled a working hard drive out of an iR3045 to create an image for a backup. Normally, I would just do a 1-to-1 image of the drive to a file using a DOS utility, but instead, I booted up Windows XP with the hard drive as a 2nd drive. On bootup, XP asked me to initialize the new drive and I instinctively clicked OK.

The drive was not formatted, only the MBR and partition tables have been overwritten. Several drive recovery utilities show me that the files are still there, just no partition table or boot record.

So, now I get an E602-0001 error, but the drive check (1/9) shows the hard drive is OK.

Is there a way to undo what Windows XP did without formatting the hard drive and starting over?

[davidj7]

nope, you can either do a restore from another disk or reinstall the software.

[Gerhard]

nope, you can either do a restore from another disk or reinstall the software.

I agree !!! Reinstalling is the quickest and painfree way. Youve lost mailboxes though.

Good luck

[mrfixit51]

A painful lesson to be sure...

The partition information can not be re-established without writing over the MBR, so the data is hosed. Time to format/reinstall system software through SST.

I feel your pain