Lost logical drive partitions

Have you ran FDISK to see if those partitions are still reported?

If you fdisked them, then the information recovery is complicated and possibly expensive.  DOH!, measure twice, cut once!

i have the EXACT SAME PROBLEM... cept i didnt use maxtors software... my dumbaz didit myself....

Fdisk dosent do recovers... norton disk doctor wont do it... i can use hex scanners to look at the cylinders and heads and the data is still there, as a matter of fact i can read a few sub directory names through it...

but the only way i have found for sure is having someone physically do it for $3500 which is unacceptable.. the HD has 2 copys of the FAT table and i know 1 still exists, just not the master... what we need is to be able to revive the secondary copy to the master.

if you find out how... PLEASE let me know

ViRoy
A+, MCP, MCSE+I

Use FDISK to view the partition information...to verify if the logical drives where INDEED deleted. DON'T make any changes as of yet, just view information.

I have used FDISK and cna see the active partition but the balance of the drive is reporting as a single partition with no logical drives.  (I have two disks each should have the active plus two logicals.)  The data on the logical is available.

Help!!


Thanks

what percentage of the drive(s) are being used by the primary partition?

Around 33% of the physical drive is set as the active partition.  
FDISK shows this as the only partition existing on the drive although the total capacity is correct.

no logical drive information when you choose option 4?

None, I'm afraid.

I hate recommending answers that will cost people money, but in this case, this'll be a lot cheaper than paying someone to physically recover the data for you.

Go to PowerQuest's web page and read the information on PartitionMagic 5.0.  I think it might be able to fix your problem.  You might want to ask someone at PowerQuest about your problem; they might be able to say "Yes, it can fix that".  It's $69.95 plus S&H, but that's a LOT better than $3500!

Norton makes a dos program called unformat.exe. it might work as well. I can recommend a data recovery place that is only $500-600. I use them in my business, they have done work for me in the past. If it comes to that, let me know and i'll set you up.

nope... i talked to power quest... they wanted $200 just to look at it and determine if it was recoverable... then depending on how large the partition was, they would bill for i think $140/hour

You mean they wanted $200 just to tell you if PartitionMagic might be able to fix your problem?  Geez...

FYI...
they physically take the drive apart to remove the lost data. It takes more than an hour just to determine whether the data is retreivable. (At least my guy does) He charges $125 minimum to cover that cost.

Have you tried Tiramisu?  I heard it was sold, so you might not be able to find it under that name, but it is worth a look.  It workss from a DOS boot disk and does a fair job of recovery.  Couple of hundred dollars if I remember correctly.

It was bought by OnTrack.  There is a free trial download available.  It won't recover the data, but will show what is recoverable.  You can then decide if the cost is worth it.  

http://www.recovery.de/disk-recovery.html

sounds good, i'll check it out.