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Originally posted by Jer. and am buying a new Removable HD tomorrow.

http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/28/...-up-hard-drive/

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Originally posted by Jer. GOD BLESS CHKDSK /R It worked. My MFT went loopy. I am back in Business as if nothing had happened, and am buying a new Removable HD tomorrow. I feel like the luckiest asshole on the planet!

Yeah, in cases like this I've found that the easiest solution is:

1. Insert XP CD
2. Boot into the Recovery Console
3. Run CHKDSK /R
4. Run FIXBOOT (Enter YES to all prompts)
5. Restart

I've had to do this for loads of sales reps PCs, including quite a few VPs @ 3M....they were all shocked that it was restored withing 10 minutes.

ps: FIXBOOT simply rewrites the MBR.

FYI, another solution to this problem could have been:

1. Remove laptop HD
2. Slave laptop HD to desktop HD
3. Transfer laptop HD data to desktop HD
4. Reformat laptop HD
5. Reinstall windows on laptop HD
6. Copy data back to laptop HD
7. Reinsert laptop HD
8. Hopefully everything works well

I did this when my primary HD crashed a couple years back.. Saved a ton of data that would have otherwise been lost.

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