Hi!
I need qualified help with one of my harddrives that got it's boot record index wiped by the TDL3 virus.
(See what happened in this thread:)
http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=81685.0All the files are still on there, but the boot record file index, or whatever it's called, got erased,
and now Windows thinks the disc is not initiated and need to be formated.
EDIT: Or at least it thought so when I was able to see it, a few months
back...What I want to do is to restore the disc index and be able to access the files on the disc.
I once had to do this on another disc years ago, but then I had a friend who did all the work.
Unfortunately he's too busy to help me this time.
The harddrive disc is a 250 GB SATA disc.
I run XP.
Apparently the operation itself shouldn't be absurdly complicated and there's supposed to be a freeware
program out there that does this.
(I know it isn't SpinDisk, but something similar...)
The next thing I want to do is to copy the content to a brand new 500 GB disc. Should I do this directly,
during the recovery process, or should I do it as a second step?
I would prefer to muck about as little as possible with the original 250 GB drive, as the files are
valuable to me...
* What program should I use?
* If I'm careful and read everything, will I manage this on my own?
* Which method is most likely not to result in data loss?
Any help much appreciated!