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1. How to use ptedit32 to enable pqservice partition how to#
2. How to use ptedit32 to enable pqservice partition install#
3. How to use ptedit32 to enable pqservice partition windows#

If it starts and then fails, try formatting the main partition FAT32 and boot again.Ĥ) After the restoration, use PTEDIT32 to reset the values back. If it doesn’t, I don’t know what to tell you. The system should boot to the PQService partition (presuming it’s intact), and restore. Save the changes and exit.ģ) Reboot, and go to setup in BIOS to make sure D2D recovery is on (not sure that this matters in this case, but set it anyway). Make the other partition not bootable by changing it from 80 to 00. Then, change the PQSERVICE partition to type 07 from type 27, and make it bootable by changing boot type from 00 to 80.

How to use ptedit32 to enable pqservice partition how to#

If something bad happens, you’ll know how to put it all back. And put it somewhere other than the HDD you’re screwing with (duh!).Ģ) Using PTEDIT32, write down every single parameter it shows for each partition, before you do anything else. To do a restore when your ALT-F10 function doesn’t work:ġ) Make a backup of your existing MBR with MBRWizard. If this is the case, or if you don’t want to fool with MBRWRWIN and the various dangerous MBR images, then do the below. It’s possible that none of them will work. If the one you try is wrong, boot from DOS or UBCD, restore the MBR backup you made with MBRWizard, reboot and then try the next one. This will allow you to try the various *MBR*.BIN images lying around the PQSERVICE partition. If you hose that disk, this will be your only recovery. Save that backup somewhere OTHER than the HDD you are messing around with. So, what you need to do is make a backup of your MBR with something like MBRWizard BEFORE YOU DO ANYTHING. MBRWRWIN doesn’t make MBR backup images in a format that other MBR utilities can read. Here’s what you need to know so that you don’t experience the pain I did. I then run MBRWizard again, to hide the PQService partition, make it inactive and to make the main partition active. I unhide the PQSERVICE partition, and reboot.ĮRecover starts, runs, restores and exits.

How to use ptedit32 to enable pqservice partition install#

So I decide that since it’s hosed anyway, and it’s either going to be restored from PQSERVICE or with a fresh install of something else, I format it, after hiding the PQSERVICE partition (don’t want to format THAT!!) just in case. All the low-level tools show it as the correct size, but it’s reporting itself to be 1MB in size when you look at it from Windows. Woooo! Acer eRecovery starts! OOOO! The restore starts… and fails, with an obscure error. Using MBRWizard, I make that partition active (bootable), and make the main partition inactive. So I unhide the PQService partition with MBRWizard, and voila! Everything is there.

Unfortunately, the main partition has had something bad happen to it (surprise, surprise, surprise!) It won’t boot, and I can’t see files or folders on it.

How to use ptedit32 to enable pqservice partition windows#

I then ran FIXMBR via the Windows Recovery Console (remember that wonderful tool, UBCD for Windows? You need it!) Now, the partition information is correct. Between it and PTEDIT32, I got everything repaired. I was finally able to reconstruct the partition information with DISKTEST, a freeware DOS-based disk tool that gives complete control over everything. It took about a day of poking around the drive with various tools to deduce the partition structure, start sectors, end sectors, etc.

I had made a backup of the MBR, but forgot to take it off of the drive. Now, the partition information and MBR were completely hosed, pointers were wrong, everything. RTMBR.BIN is the WRONG MBR image for Vista machines (at least mine). I made a backup of the original MBR, but that was of no help. So I booted with UBCD for Windows (EVERYONE should have a copy of this!) and ran the utility from the flash drive, and rewrote RTMBR.BIN. I then tried to run MBRWRWIN, and Vista would not allow it to write to the MBR (clever, clever). I grabbed it and RTMBR.BIN and put them on a flash drive. This allowed me to find MBRWRWIN.EXE and the various MBR images that were in that partition.

To make this work, you have to right-click the app, and choose Run As Administrator. It’s also available on another notebook forum if you become a member), and changed it from type 27 to 7. I unhid the PQservice partition with PTEDIT32, an old freeware utility from PowerQuest (you can find it if you search.