AOMEI or other partition tool to restore MBR

I had a failed backup operation and had to shut down. My boot drive is giving the
device no longer recognized error from Win7.


Can AOMEI or other other tool restore MBR or what is needed?


I've attached the disk to another machine and see all it's content.


AOMEI showed a restore MBR in it's menu. Please give advice on that.
And show a secure place to download the AOMEI. I got into some I/OBit hell
which installed a program I don't want. Where is a clean install ?

First is the disk MBR not all are what exactly is the error and when does it come up ie does windows try and start

Ok I started my own self- help on this.


I got AOMEI installed but wondered about having it put things in the start menu.


Anyway, I ran the Check Partition option in AOMEI of the problem disk. AOMEI asked to run chkdsk.
It did that and then:


Chkdsk found some errors in the partition. Would you like to fix them now?


I quit at that point though it looked like the right solution.


As to error reporting of the problem boot disk, I don't know if I can get a print screen.
It was the black and white screen showing failure to boot because the 'device could not be found.'


That's when I thought of AOMEI and fix MBR routine in it.


As a I recall there is a way to do that from the Win& repair disk at command line.


I would like to salvage the disk as it is rather than going to a backup.


But I didn't want to commit to the Fix procedure until I know it won't wipe the disk.


Thanks for replies.

It depends what errors chkdskhas found if its bad sectors and they are on the boot record it could be toast if its just file system corruption it needs fixing as that may be the problem. If the message is disk cant be found it suggests either a cable fault power fault port fault or a dead drive. If its just boot sector it should say disk boot failure doe sit show up in the bios ok?

samuria said:

It depends what errors chkdskhas found if its bad sectors and they are on the boot record it could be toast if its just file system corruption it needs fixing as that may be the problem. If the message is disk cant be found it suggests either a cable fault power fault port fault or a dead drive. If its just boot sector it should say disk boot failure doe sit show up in the bios ok?

I'll review the text of the error. It's hard to remember multiple lines verbatim.
I did all the cable checks and installed the HD ro a separate setup. Error was same.

SIW2 said:

Chdsk won't wipe the disk. It might find some bad sectors and mark them , so it is possible that may affect some data - but if it on bad sectors, you can't use that data anyway.

It's a 2Tb that is very new.