On Wed, 01 Nov 2006 16:50:49 +0100, Gabriele Neukam
<Gabriele.Spamfighter.Neukam@t-online.de> wrote:

>Uh oh, bad move. In such a case, i would have done a FDISK /mbr, which
>might have fixed the thing. If not, there are still tools like the
>Ranish Partition Manager, yet it will require some knowledge.
>

fdisk /mbr would only overwrite the "program" part of the master boot
record (if it somehow got corrupted). The partition table part would
be unaffected.

>Still I wonder why the BartPE disk botched it. FAT32 is available for
>NT versions, too, and shouldn't have been changed by an XP prog.
>

I wonder why too. I think the partition table probably got
changed/corrupted by some action not yet posted about and Bart is
probably the whipping boy, carrying the can for something else the OP
shouldn't have done.


Jim.