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Well that proved to be a piece of cake. I decided not to run fixmbr from the recovery console since TestDisk already fixed that. Why mess up a perfect boot sector with MS boot stuff? No thanks unless I have to. And thanks to TestDisk I didn't have to.

So I just ran fixboot D: off the XP recovery ...

Hi and good evening,

Of course I couldn't wait til tomorrow so i set the drive to compatibility mode in the BIOS, as your link provided suggested. Guess what, now the XP CD sees the drive! I can logon to it and browse the directory structure. This is fixable now.

I'll just have to read around a ...

Hi again,

No it's not an IDE drive, it's a Serial ATA drive. One can press F1 too at startup to get into the BIOS of this Stinkpad (just kidding). My PC is a 4 yr old T61 and the XP CD doesn't see the hard disk there too, also a SATA drive.

I guess I have no better option than to find some USB ...

Hello again,

I took a few output dumps. I set the geometry to 240 again and it found the partitions, with a warning. This error disappeared after i wrote the partition table again.

TestDisk 6.13, Data Recovery Utility, November 2011
Christophe GRENIER <grenier@cgsecurity.org>
http://www.cgsecurity ...

Hi,

Thanks for the swift reply. I find the suggestion of a modified Thinkvantage MBR a good one. I have already tried the XP CD recovery console. However, it does not see any disks. Could this be due to a missing ATA diskdriver on the XP CD?

I will include some Testdisk output in a followup post ...

Hello,

First of all i wanted to say great software and great support, it comes automatically to mind when reading this forum. Unfortunately my problem is not listed yet. Please allow me to explain.

There is this Thinkpad R60 of about 4 years old. It's an XP machine that crashed and lost its ...