"Fixmbr" made hard drive partition Inaccessible

When some of the operating system files need to be repaired or replaced ,you have to repair the master boot records (MBR) of the computers system. This repairing is required when . This process writes a new code to the selected partition. This procedure calls for execution of fixmbr command in the Recovery console of your system.

But it has been found so many times that all the hard drive data becomes inaccessible after running the fixmbr command. In this condition Windows Data Recovery Software is one of the rescue.

Once, one of my clients had a trouble that while trying to boot his MS Windows 2000 Professional that has been refusing to start. Here is scene he faced :

Insert the Windows installation CD in the disk drive.
Boot the system from the CD.
And then entered the recovery console.
But, when you tried to run the fixmbr command, you encountered the following error message:

'This computer appears to have a non-standard or invalid master boot record. FIXMBR may damage your partition tables if you proceed. This could cause all the partitions on the current hard disk to become inaccessible. If you are not having problems accessing your drive, do not continue. Are you sure you want to write a new MBR?'

In such situations, you have little choice to proceed further. You will soon find the below mentioned message displayed on your system:

Writing new master boot record on physical drive
\Device\Harddisk0\Partition0.
The new master boot record has been successfully written.

After this, you need to check whether all the partitions are working properly not. In case they are not accessible, you will need to recover windows partition data, using the latest backup . And if you don't have the backup available, then you have to opt for partition recovery software to perform complete Windows data recovery. These software implement complex algorithms to read the hard drive and fetch data from it.

A free trial version of the same can be downloaded from the company website. Ie; at http://www.windows-data-recovery.net/