Repair windows partition table

A few month ago, my PC suddenly can’t pass the windows XP logo. This happen after I download a software from unreliable source. As the last resort, I try to format my PC.

I feel really astonished when I need to choose the partition to be format because windows detect that my hard disk has one partition only (there are actually 3 partitions) and the partition size is zero bytes. That means there is no data in my hard disk. I wonder if virus had eaten my files.

After a lot of research, at last I know that the problem is not because virus had eaten my files but because it had eaten the partition tables of my windows. Partition tables works as a middle man between  windows and the files in our hard disk. Since the middle man had been eaten, that’s why windows detect my hard disk as empty hard disk.

Most of people will feel worry about this and think that their hard disk has corrupted or broken. Don’t worry, there is a tool to repair partition table easily. 

Windows XP recovery console

• To repair partition table, you can try the windows XP recovery console (from windows XP cd). Then, you need to type FIXMBR to fix the partition table.

For my case, this way does not work.

TestDisk software

• Since I cannot logon to my PC, I made my hard disk as slave at my friends PC. Then I use TestDisk to create back the partition table. In just two minutes, I can access my PC again without the need to format them.
• Although I need to make my PC as slave, I am sure you do not need to that because test disk has LiveCD as well. Mean you can repair your partition table by using TestDisk as boot disk.
• Visit cgsecurity to download.

Ps: Although it took two minutes to solve it, it cost me two days to find the working solution.

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