There is no denying the fact that I did not use the fixmbr and fixboot command, it never even clicked my mind. I am not going to shy away from the fact that the only 2 things that i did once my friend told me what had happened was to download Ontrack recovery and start this thread.


Like i've said before i did recover everything with the utility suggested earlier.

Moving on I am not sure if fixboot would have worked since this is an external disk without a boot partition (my situation involved a WD USB based external HDD). Fixmbr may have done the trick, however it never clicked me.

Lastly with the all exams that I've done none of them teach me anything that went on yesterday. I am not going to deny knowing basic commands such as fixmbr and fixboot is essential and again there is no denying that they never struck me.

All that i did learning from real world experience and those exams is to keep my data off my laptop and get one more HDD and create a second backup (which i did today).


Thanks again.

Parth