My company mandates the use of Symantec PGP Whole Disk Encryption, so my Windows 7 laptop is duly encrypted. A couple of days ago Windows stopped booting correctly, and immediately after entering my PGP password the machine booted into the Windows recovery environment. Running the diagnostic tools in there indicated that the Master Boot Record of the laptop was to blame. Not thinking, I ran fixmbr which obviously blew away the WDE boot loader. Booting the system then gave the message "missing operating system".
I've spent a couple of days scouring the forums and found this post which mirrors my problem exactly. I tried the PGP recovery boot disk first, but this did not detect the drive. So I plugged the disk in to a machine running the same version (10.3.0) of PGP using a SATA-USB cable, and tried the command line. This is what I see (Disk 1 is the old HDD attached via USB):
Great, I thought, now I'll try the --recover command line option. This started scanning each sector of the drive, but bombs out consistently at a particular sector with the below error.
I'm at a loss as to what to do next... but there is some important data on the drive so I haven't given up yet! Help!