Problem with MBR and allocation table

[JUSTICE]

My father asked me to uninstall Fedora core 10 on his PC (Pentium IV 3.4 ghz / 1gb ram / HHD80 gb) which had Fedore and Win XP. Unfortunately, I forgot to turn Grub before executing the operation ... Suddenly, the PC no longer starts. Following that, I did not have a CD of XP (XP is the original system of the machine) I called a "professional" I simply told to create a new allocation table ... So over and Mbr Gparted does not see more than the unallocated space ...Knowing that my will be father back in 2 hours and that his work PC and will be annoyed, so please help me. To cap it all, it is a laptop and it has no floppy drive.

[newtech]

Without Windows CD, you cannot proceed further.

Put a bootable manager of GNU / Linux (Grub like), if it comes to booting Windows.

[Expertz]

I had this same problem a few weeks ago. I tried mounting the drive in an external case and hooking it up to another computer through USB and it would cause the computer to reboot as well.

I finally ended up mounting the drive back in the laptop and using a Live CD copy of SLAX LINUX to read the data off the drive and copy it to another machine so I could reinstall. Another way I found to recover that data is by mounting the drive as an external, with USB, on a machine running Win9x or ME. You can then run a free program called NTFS Reader that lets you copy your data off the NTFS patitions. I was never able to see multiple partitions off one drive unless I went either of these two routes. I'm sure that there are other ways to do this but this is what worked for me. In bother cases, data was retrieved with 100% success.

[Zachary]

Could you please enter Recovery Console in the way described at http://support.microsoft.com/default...25120121120120 and type Fixmbr command?