bharatkasapoot
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Partitions Dissapear
Hi I hope someone is able to help me with this.
I have a 10 gb disk I have three partitions on it. I used partition magic to create the partitions. Suddenly two of the patitions have dissapeared. i dont know why. I also have drive Image and just downloaded it. Did drive image erase those partitions?
Even partition magic does not show the two dissapeared drive, neither does the windows explorer. I dont know where they could have dissapeared.
I made a drive Image and noticed the prolem after that but cant be sure
I may have wrongly given a new letter for the cdrom in the partition creation process
hope someone can help
I have a 10 gb disk I have three partitions on it. I used partition magic to create the partitions. Suddenly two of the patitions have dissapeared. i dont know why. I also have drive Image and just downloaded it. Did drive image erase those partitions?
Even partition magic does not show the two dissapeared drive, neither does the windows explorer. I dont know where they could have dissapeared.
I made a drive Image and noticed the prolem after that but cant be sure
I may have wrongly given a new letter for the cdrom in the partition creation process
hope someone can help
what does fdisk tell you? ntfs or fat32/fat16
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Windows explorer shows the size of the partition as the reduced 6gb the other two were 2 and 1
boot to dos, and from the prompt type
fdisk
say yes to large drive support
choose otption 4
report back here what it says
fdisk
say yes to large drive support
choose otption 4
report back here what it says
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Fat 32
If you are looking to recover information from these lost partitions & are unable to do so with the suggestions already mentioned, you might want to check out a program called "R-Studio" that scans the disk & can recover lost partitions, folders, files (http://www.r-tt.com/).
R-Studio will work on FAT, FAT32 and NTFS partitions (works on both basic and dynamic disks in Win2K).
Hope this helps!
/EW
R-Studio will work on FAT, FAT32 and NTFS partitions (works on both basic and dynamic disks in Win2K).
Hope this helps!
/EW
Also - Norton Disk Doctor was able to do similar things.
I would make sure you are backed up before attempting anything.
If you need the data back,
I would purchace a second drive and use drive Image to make a copy of your present drive ( The while drive as an image, not by partition.
This will allow you to save the information for restoration if you can not recover using 1 program, maybe a different one will work.
I hope this helps !
I would make sure you are backed up before attempting anything.
If you need the data back,
I would purchace a second drive and use drive Image to make a copy of your present drive ( The while drive as an image, not by partition.
This will allow you to save the information for restoration if you can not recover using 1 program, maybe a different one will work.
I hope this helps !
"I used partition magic to create the partitions"
Is it possible you have accidentally hidden the partitions? What is the full readout of Fdisk Opt 4?
Is it possible you have accidentally hidden the partitions? What is the full readout of Fdisk Opt 4?
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you may be right WiZaRd let me check and report back
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WiZaRd
i checked the Fdisk data is as follows
Partition C: 9600 (about the size of my whole partition)
If i run Diskeeper 7.0 it shows it to be 6gigs (the size I reduced it to after I created the two new partitions.)
Can you make any sense of it.
i checked the Fdisk data is as follows
Partition C: 9600 (about the size of my whole partition)
If i run Diskeeper 7.0 it shows it to be 6gigs (the size I reduced it to after I created the two new partitions.)
Can you make any sense of it.
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You may be able to use PM to recover the lost partitions but you have to be sure to make them exactly the same size.