Comments on: Easily Restore a Corrupt NTFS Boot Sector http://www.heavygravity.com/2007/01/24/easily-restore-a-corrupt-ntfs-boot-sector/ Mon, 05 Sep 2011 23:35:05 -0700 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Sean Ryle http://www.heavygravity.com/2007/01/24/easily-restore-a-corrupt-ntfs-boot-sector/#comment-14255 Sean Ryle Sat, 05 Sep 2009 15:33:20 +0000 http://www.heavygravity.com/2007/01/24/easily-restore-a-corrupt-ntfs-boot-sector/#comment-14255 This worked like a charm. This was far easioer than reinstalling windows on the dead partition and restoring my backup data (which wasn't quite current). Thank you Heavy Gravity and Linux for saving my Windows data. :-) This worked like a charm. This was far easioer than reinstalling windows on the dead partition and restoring my backup data (which wasn’t quite current). Thank you Heavy Gravity and Linux for saving my Windows data. :-)

]]> By: There are Two Copies… « Mike’s Linux Desktop Experiences http://www.heavygravity.com/2007/01/24/easily-restore-a-corrupt-ntfs-boot-sector/#comment-3256 There are Two Copies… « Mike’s Linux Desktop Experiences Fri, 14 Mar 2008 12:45:50 +0000 http://www.heavygravity.com/2007/01/24/easily-restore-a-corrupt-ntfs-boot-sector/#comment-3256 [...] There are Two Copies… Filed under: Uncategorized — Mr. Mike @ 7:45 am … of the NTFS boot record. One at the beginning of the NTFS volume, one at the end. http://www.heavygravity.com/2007/01/24/easily-restore-a-corrupt-ntfs-boot-sector/ “Could not find a valid backup boot sector” [...] [...] There are Two Copies… Filed under: Uncategorized — Mr. Mike @ 7:45 am … of the NTFS boot record. One at the beginning of the NTFS volume, one at the end. http://www.heavygravity.com/2007/01/24/easily-restore-a-corrupt-ntfs-boot-sector/ “Could not find a valid backup boot sector” [...]

]]> By: Daniel Alvarez-Torres http://www.heavygravity.com/2007/01/24/easily-restore-a-corrupt-ntfs-boot-sector/#comment-2912 Daniel Alvarez-Torres Tue, 23 Oct 2007 20:43:06 +0000 http://www.heavygravity.com/2007/01/24/easily-restore-a-corrupt-ntfs-boot-sector/#comment-2912 I tested it and worked like a charm. I have configured my PC to boot both Windows and Linux and broke the windows XP partition, when I changed the grub settings and reinstalled them, by mistake, on "/dev/sda1" instead of "/dev/sda". The result was that I was not longer able to boot windows. This command fixed the windows partition's boot sector. Thanks! I tested it and worked like a charm.
I have configured my PC to boot both Windows and Linux and broke the windows XP partition, when I changed the grub settings and reinstalled them, by mistake, on “/dev/sda1″ instead of “/dev/sda”. The result was that I was not longer able to boot windows.
This command fixed the windows partition’s boot sector.
Thanks!

]]> By: Rob http://www.heavygravity.com/2007/01/24/easily-restore-a-corrupt-ntfs-boot-sector/#comment-2751 Rob Fri, 31 Aug 2007 06:31:40 +0000 http://www.heavygravity.com/2007/01/24/easily-restore-a-corrupt-ntfs-boot-sector/#comment-2751 Well, obviously I have tried it (and it worked exactly as advertised). If you're having serious problems with your drive and you want to try this, you've probably already made a backup image of the partitions (using dd for example), so you can't hurt much. I did this without making any backup, since the only change it makes to the partition is to try to copy the backup boot sector over the corrupt one. If you have a corrupt boot sector anyway, what do you have to lose? Well, obviously I have tried it (and it worked exactly as advertised). If you’re having serious problems with your drive and you want to try this, you’ve probably already made a backup image of the partitions (using dd for example), so you can’t hurt much.

I did this without making any backup, since the only change it makes to the partition is to try to copy the backup boot sector over the corrupt one. If you have a corrupt boot sector anyway, what do you have to lose?

]]> By: martin http://www.heavygravity.com/2007/01/24/easily-restore-a-corrupt-ntfs-boot-sector/#comment-2737 martin Wed, 29 Aug 2007 17:55:56 +0000 http://www.heavygravity.com/2007/01/24/easily-restore-a-corrupt-ntfs-boot-sector/#comment-2737 Have some one tried this? Have some one tried this?

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