Getting back partition tables

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Steve Cousins

I have a disk SATA disk that has two NTFS partitions on it. The disk
was connected to a 3Ware 9550SX controller and set up as a "Single"
drive. This seems to have done something to the drive such that now when
I put it into a Windows 2000 machine it is said to be a basic drive that
is "Unallocated" (no partitions).

I have run FinalData Enterprise 2.0 on it and I can access both
partitions and get most of the data off. The problem is that some of the
file names are listed with question marks in them and I think it has to
do with this being a disk that was used in a Chinese computer (WinXP)
and possibly the characters are not recognized by Win2000 or possibly it
is a FinalData problem. When I try to save these files it gives me a
message saying that a file with that name cannot be created on the
destination drive. These files can be renamed and saved but there are
hundreds or even thousands of these and it would be very tedious to do this.

So, it seems that since the data and partition tables are there I just
need to do something to the MBR to tell it where the partitions start or
some such thing.

Can anyone point me to how this can be done?

Thanks,

Steve
 
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