said by Wastelands:
So, I can use the HD utility to rewrite the bootstrap/MBR without losing the data on the drive?
No. It will wipe out the MBR and Partition table.
said by Wastelands:
If necessary, I could move everything off of that HD.
How can you move anything off it, if you can't read it?
Are any drives visible?
Are you trying to save data in a partition that is no longer visible?
How was the drive paritioned before the failure?
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