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  • Subject: Re: [BL] ahhh just spoiled a usb pin drive with windows install
  • Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2010 23:05:10 +0200

Thank you and I see there is a free trailer version to try out nice.
Still think I just need to bring back the fat16 partition but probably
not with fdisk /mbr. probably just with fdisk partitioning but I wait
til I have researched some more

Thanks again
Mikkel

On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 10:11 AM, <baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org> wrote:
> baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org wrote:
>> Dear old helpers
>>
>> I made a window xp install an forgot that my usb pin drive was in the
>> computer. So by mistake I choose that I wanted to delete the partition
>> that was on my usb pin drive. Before I started any installation I
>> discover this and tried to stop the process. But to late when I put in
>> the drive in an other the computer it is un-accessible. Now I figure
>> that it must be the mbr of the pin drive that has been deleted do you
>> agree? I haven't formatted the drive. Do you think that I can rescue
>> it by bringing back the mbr back for instance with fdisk /mbr from a
>> dos prompt?
>>
>
> Probably not, DOS has weak support for usb drives. Try some programs
> from http://www.data-recovery-usb-drive.com/
> Samir
>> Thank in advance
>> Mikkel
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