There is a WDC WD5000AAKS-00A7B0 screw, I hope that many people understood that this is 500 GB Western Digital. I had an incident because of my fault: the MBR and the Boot Sector were reset (I screwed up somewhere). They really were some zeros, the rest, like, in place. I restored them “about”, but Windows refuses to assign a drive letter to this disk, they say that the partition is unformatted. Maybe I got a little confused or mistaken in tsiferki, but I can not understand where. On the screw is a large archive that I really do not want to lose. It was: WDC WD5000AAKS-00A7B0, one NTFS Primary partition, formatted on Win XP 64 bit just bought a screw or Win XP (I don’t remember, it was in May of this year). Formatting was complete and on default installations with the exception of the volume label. There the archive was merged (approximately 300 Gig) from another screw sent to the service of another computer. Need to: If anyone has the same screw, the same system is also formatted, please share the image of the MBR and Boot Sector or advise something. With me, karmablagodarnost for a really working option, if not zaminusyut. If you manage to restore - with me a story about this adventure. PS A couple of times I have already restored NTFS partitions with broken MBR and Boot Sector, and successfully, but this time something does not work. :( UPD Thanks for the advice, but I tried the automation already - it will not work. On this screw, besides many thousands of photos archived on DVD, only partially, there are also virtual machines with their own virtual disks and automatic recovery programs successfully find a lot of partitions of different degrees of compatibility with each other. Actually, there is one section: NTFS, Primary formatted with the default settings of the system, and here I screwed up somewhere, so I’m asking for the MBR and Boot Sector images for the same screw with the same system: I will compare and roughly understand in which direction move on. UPD 2 Anyone who recommended TestDisk plus in karma. There is no point in telling something about restoring my screw with the help of this wonderful program, because everything in it is very simple and clear.