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<blockquote data-quote="mba" data-source="post: 139735" data-attributes="member: 15066">HiI'm very very frustrated.... windows or whatever just trashed the boot partition of my htpc an hour ago. Bang! Gone...Had some troubles with the naming of a channel in MP, in order for the EPG data to match the channel name I shutdown MP and started up the config tool through VNC, all the sudden I didn't get a response in VNC anymore I could move the mouse around but I was unable to interact with windows. Went into my living-room where my htpc is located and immediately noticed excessive HD activity, thought &quot;oh what the hay!&quot; waited 10 min. pressed reset... then bios message unable to find boot record. EEEKS!Threw in xp install, tried recovery console FIXMBR, FIXBOOT - nothing.Downloaded SystemRescueCd with testdisk on it, which of course was unable to locate anything resembling a ntfs partition.Our photos where on this disk, and I just recently finished transferring all our audio cds to it.... Damn! What can you learn from this - BACKUP!If anybody has experience with this kind of situation please give me an advice... Any advice will be much appreciated other than: reformat, reinstall, re-transfer cd's and take some new photos <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" />...kind regardsMartin</blockquote>

[QUOTE="mba, post: 139735, member: 15066"] Hi I'm very very frustrated.... windows or whatever just trashed the boot partition of my htpc an hour ago. Bang! Gone... Had some troubles with the naming of a channel in MP, in order for the EPG data to match the channel name I shutdown MP and started up the config tool through VNC, all the sudden I didn't get a response in VNC anymore I could move the mouse around but I was unable to interact with windows. Went into my living-room where my htpc is located and immediately noticed excessive HD activity, thought "oh what the hay!" waited 10 min. pressed reset... then bios message unable to find boot record. EEEKS! Threw in xp install, tried recovery console FIXMBR, FIXBOOT - nothing. Downloaded SystemRescueCd with testdisk on it, which of course was unable to locate anything resembling a ntfs partition. Our photos where on this disk, and I just recently finished transferring all our audio cds to it.... Damn! What can you learn from this - BACKUP! If anybody has experience with this kind of situation please give me an advice... Any advice will be much appreciated other than: reformat, reinstall, re-transfer cd's and take some new photos :-)... kind regards Martin [/QUOTE]

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