Win7 on SCSI HD disappeared

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  1. Posts : 10
    windows 7 Prof
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    Win7 on SCSI HD disappeared


    Yesterday, my Win7 installed on a SCSI drive failed to boot up. I got an error message of misssing MBR. I could see the SCSI drive in the BIOS as well as boot into Acronis Recovery. I boot up using another HD, but couldn't see the SCSI drive from Disk Management.

    1. How could I reinstate the MBR?

    2. If reinstating the MBR is too complex or impossible, is there any easy way that I could retrive the data? For example, could I copy the SCSI partition onto an SATA drive using Acronis Recovery?

    Thanks.
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  2. Posts : 19,383
    Windows 10 Pro x64 ; Xubuntu x64
       #2

    Try this to fix the MBR:

    Bootmgr is missing - Fix
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  3. Posts : 10
    windows 7 Prof
    Thread Starter
       #3

    Thanks for the suggestion.

    I did try your suggestion, but the System Recovery didn't detect the SCSI disk. As such, it didn't solve my problem.
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  4. Posts : 10
    windows 7 Prof
    Thread Starter
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    I copy the whole partition on the SCSI drive to a SATA drive using Acronis Recovery. Once copied, I could see all the files copied to the SATA drive, and the data seemed to be intact. As such, the SCSI seemed to be intact as well. What I am missing now is a tool which could assess the SCSI drive and able to rebuild the MBR.
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  5. Posts : 19,383
    Windows 10 Pro x64 ; Xubuntu x64
       #5

    Have you tried a Startup Repair? You may have to run it 3 times in order for it to make any repairs.

    Startup Repair
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  6. Posts : 10
    windows 7 Prof
    Thread Starter
       #6

    I haven't tried Startup Repair. In fact, I couldn't use any tools that come with the Windows 7 installation disk at all as it could not detect my SCSI drive.

    At one stage, I thought my SCSI drive was dead. However, Acronis Recovery successfully retrieved the data. Unfortunately, Acronis couldn't rebuild the MBR.
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  7. Posts : 19,383
    Windows 10 Pro x64 ; Xubuntu x64
       #7

    Mmm. Thats odd, the BIOS sees it as does Acronis, but not Windows......did you have to install a specific SCSI driver originally?
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  8. Posts : 10
    windows 7 Prof
    Thread Starter
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    I am not too sure as the OS was installed by IT. It is a computer at work.

    Not too sure it help, but I noticed the SCSI drive is connected to a PCI card, rather than directly to the mother board.
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  9. Posts : 19,383
    Windows 10 Pro x64 ; Xubuntu x64
       #9

    Perhaps its best to check with them.
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  10. Posts : 10
    windows 7 Prof
    Thread Starter
       #10

    I found the cause of my problem:

    My SCSI drive has a "system reserve partition" and a "OS partition". For some unknown reasons, the latter was accidentally marked as active. I used "MiniTool Partition Wizard" to change the "system reserve partition" back to active, it can boot again.
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