Post 22 - 1st attempt, before jumpers
Post 30: Connected to Sata | Jumpers on 7 & 8 - as stated on sticker.
Note: OP beleives it is slave jumpering. Now that I'm writing the recap
- confirm needed. No such thing as slave Sata???????
- rejumper as master???????
Post 30: Jumpers on 7 & 8 - as stated on sticker.
Post 38: Testdisk 43% - invalid boot sector
Based on FAT invalid boot sector
post 43: testdisk - disk selection
(just showing the correct drive is selected for recover fat32 boot attempt)
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post 49: advanced - returns No available partition
I was going to try and recover or rebuild the boot sector and not being intimate with Testdisk, believed it was in the advanced menu.
Aslo, probably confused MBR with boot sector
Testdisk said:
TestDisk can fix corrupted FAT32 boot sectors. The quickest way is to restore the FAT32 boot sector from its backup.
TestDisk checks the boot sector and the backup boot sector. If the boot sector and backup boot sector mismatch, you can:
- restore the boot sector from the FAT32 backup boot sector if it's valid (Backup BS);
- update the backup boot sector with the current FAT32 boot sector if it's valid (Org. BS).
Dump can used to display the sector content in both hexadecimal and ASCII.
If the boot sector has been overwritten, it's often the case for its backup also as they are very close to each other:
Fortunately TestDisk can deal with this problem by creating a new boot sector from scratch.
post 53: set Testdisk options to dump
post 54: create Testdisk log at start
post 56: no change after dump and create log
might be useful to find the log and dump - saved for today's session.
post 63: return symptoms to idenitfying drive as FAT12 - as was the original attempt with Testdisk
post 64: jumanji posts inquiries and excellent advice on keeping status of disk drive the same as when the problem occurred, plus manyother insightful suggestions.
Thanks you stopping in - hope all is well on the home front. You're probably sleeping now, so I hope this recap will help if you visit tomorrow.
post 66: injmalk replies - only one partition and wasnt formated on anything prior to vista