partition recovery

[ScorpioIlya]

Hey

If I have either win2k/XP, and I have a non-system drive that is viewed as RAW, that is very large...and I'm sure has an NTFS partition on it, how would I rebuild the partition? When I run Ontrack and various other utilities on it, they IMMEDIATELY pick up the NTFS partition, and let me MOVE all the files off....the problem is, i don't don't have a hard drive large enough to move them on to...so i'd like to actually re-write the MBR/partition table info..so its properly seen in windows......UNFORTUNATELY.....all professional data recovery utlities either WILL NOT rebuild the partition, or run from dos, which i do not want to bother with....so is there something that just goes 'okay your fat is corrupted, let me rebuild it...bam, done....no need to move your files off of it'.

[shamus]

or run from dos, which i do not want to bother with.....

You may well have to bother with it. The only way I can think of to rebuild your MBR (unless you have Partition Magic) and the simplest, is to use FDISK.
From a dos prompt type FDISK /MBR. You may want to try FDISK /STATUS to see what partitions your system sees first. Make sure your on the drive you want to rebuild before typing the command.