Storage Solutions HDD mbr is corrupt. How to recover?

zhopudey

zhopudey

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Stupid partition magic has foosked up my hdd :( Can't access my data partition. Now, acronis disk director can see the partiotn, and even lets me browse the files on it. But it cannot assign a drive letter, cannot clean it or split it. I tried a program called Stellar Pheonix data recovery, but that was of no help. I also tried "bootsect/nt60 all /mbr" through the win 8 setup disk, but that didn't do anything.
I'm now downloading ubuntu to see if i can access my files through that. Anything else I should try? I don't mind losing all data and reformatting the hdd, but I'm unable to do even that atm.
 

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I have done this with WinXP but not sure about Win8...
Using your win setup disk, enter recovery console(R), and type:
Code: 
FIXMBR

This always worked with win-xp for me.... :p
 
No fixmbr command in win 8 disk. It has a boots ectopic command which I tried but didn't help. Will try super grub disk as well.
I copied important data thru Ubuntu live disk. But it has no option for formatting or deleting partitions.
 
bootrec / fixmbr
bootrec / ?
Second command to see help options . First put win 7 bootable usb or dvd in pc . then boot into command prompt . Do not select install os . Select repair os when it asks .
 
I re partitioned the hdd thru gparted, and installed win8. But I still have a problem. If I try to boot into the win8 usb in uefi mode, I get a bcd error. How do I get rid of this?
 

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use xp or win7 boot os disc and after that choose custom install and go to advance drive options and from there you can do whatever u want
 
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