Richard Glazier wrote:

>fixmbr (XP-Pro) gets me:
>    "an invalid or nonstandard partition table signature is detected",
>    (and I am prompted whether I want to continue.)
>
>(Warning)
>    "If you are not having problems accessing your drives,
>    you should not continue. Writing a new master boot record
>    to your system partition could damage your partition tables
>    and cause your partitions to become inaccessible."
>
>Where can I find out more about the exact nature of what is "nonstandard"?
>The MSKB is not much help finding the specifics, (as far as I can tell).
>
>                          TIA    Rick Glazier
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This URL ( http://www.techspot.com/vb/showthread.php?threadid=14247 )
has several discussions about this problem, and one response (from Rick)
even talked about a program that could possible recover the info from
the damaged drive.

Jean Bourvic

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