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3.3.2. Dealing With the "Unknown"
The list of drives in the Logical Drive Information Display screen
usually contains the names of physical disks, logical drives and
un-named, Unallocated space. If a partition is damaged, however, it
will be identified as the type Unknown. Contents of an Unknown
partition cannot be displayed, nor can it be processed by Active@
UNERASER.
The utility understands that there is an existing partition, but as
it cannot be certain what is in that space, it cannot scan it or
otherwise inspect the space further.
To repair this problem, instruct the utility to bypass information
in the Master Boot Record (MBR). For more information on MBR, please
see the next section "Backing Up MBR, Partition Table and Boot
Sector", below.
Here are the steps:
- Exit the Active@ UNERASER program to display the DOS prompt.
- Start the program again using the command line parameter -ignoreMBR.
For more information, please see "Using Command Line Parameters",
below. In this example use the syntax below:
A:\>UNERASER.EXE -ignoreMBR=80h
This will start Active@ UNERASER while ignoring the default
MBR and
partition information.
- When the list of drives appears using this parameter, the
Unknown
space will appear as Unallocated.
- Position the cursor on the Unallocated space and press [Enter] to
detect and recover partitions as described in "Starting Active@ UNERASER", above.
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