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Originally Posted by Strzelecki
You could have tried the XP recovery console 'fixboot' or 'fixmbr' but you'd still have needed a floppy with the RAID drivers on it, otherwise you could have tried Acronis' other utility, 'Acronis recovery expert'. Just fixed a PC with a similar problem, the primary partition had misteriously deleted itself, managed to recover that but the MBR was corrupt so have to manually edit the sectors (no utitlity seemed to be able to fix it) got the PC back to life with no loss of data at all. It was a pain though, wasn't just a RAID array but was on SATA too, which half the recovery tools can't cope with!
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XP recovery console, even when pressing F6 and installing the raid controller cannot see the disk, so FixMbr etc will not work as it cannot find a disk to fix the MBR on.
www.partition-recovery.com pr.exe can see the disk and can see the primary and first logical partition (the two that are more important to me) and says the rest of the drive is not partitioned, if it scans it it finds the 97Mb partition, but cannot see data on it so at the mo I'm not going to tell it to restore this partition.
So I can now see this drive and edit the content. Do I just need to type this lot into the right place on the drive?
http://www.uneraser.com/mbr-damaged.htm or is it more complicated than that?