Esulin
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Lost partition on merge in PartitionMagic.
Work's hectic, so I apologise if this is a RTFM question, but I got no time to look into it.
I am running WinXP Pro, on an AMD XP2000, 1024MB RAM with 2 x 80GB harddisks. The 1st HD has only one partition set to 100% of the size, while the 2nd has (had) two partitions of approx 60GB & 20GB (active primary and logical respectively). Both harddisks formated using NTFS.
I tried Merging partitions using PartitionMagic 8.0 on the 2nd Harddisk. PartitionMagic told me to reboot which I did and then it ran the merge process. The process completed, but brought up an error afterwards. It mentioned some problem with the 'batch process' or something of the like.
Once I booted up the OS, the logical partition (e:) that I was merging with the active partition (f:) was no longer registering. IT shows up as unpartitioned space. The folder that the contents of drive e: where supposed to be copied too exists, but is empty, and the active partition's size is unchanged.
I tried the Undelete Partition function in PartitionMagic but after scanning up to about 10% on the progress bar of the Undelete Window, it reports that there are no partitions to Undelete.
I need to rebuild the partition table or somehow recover the data from the logical partition. Any suggestions?
Regards,
Esulin.
(PS. I'm watching ID4 on DVD while writing this... Jeff Goldblum and Will Smith just uploaded the 'Virus' to the mothership.. Don't you just love how aliens obviously run their computer communications using TCP/IP, most prorably on some old version of Windows... Windows ET? hehe. bad pun.)
I am running WinXP Pro, on an AMD XP2000, 1024MB RAM with 2 x 80GB harddisks. The 1st HD has only one partition set to 100% of the size, while the 2nd has (had) two partitions of approx 60GB & 20GB (active primary and logical respectively). Both harddisks formated using NTFS.
I tried Merging partitions using PartitionMagic 8.0 on the 2nd Harddisk. PartitionMagic told me to reboot which I did and then it ran the merge process. The process completed, but brought up an error afterwards. It mentioned some problem with the 'batch process' or something of the like.
Once I booted up the OS, the logical partition (e:) that I was merging with the active partition (f:) was no longer registering. IT shows up as unpartitioned space. The folder that the contents of drive e: where supposed to be copied too exists, but is empty, and the active partition's size is unchanged.
I tried the Undelete Partition function in PartitionMagic but after scanning up to about 10% on the progress bar of the Undelete Window, it reports that there are no partitions to Undelete.
I need to rebuild the partition table or somehow recover the data from the logical partition. Any suggestions?
Regards,
Esulin.
(PS. I'm watching ID4 on DVD while writing this... Jeff Goldblum and Will Smith just uploaded the 'Virus' to the mothership.. Don't you just love how aliens obviously run their computer communications using TCP/IP, most prorably on some old version of Windows... Windows ET? hehe. bad pun.)
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I did exactly the same ...Good old Partition Magic!.......Oh...and they still have not supplied a solution to make emergency disks on a cd...Have they not seen a new laptop lately?...Did their programming staff not come back from lunch? If it smells like a fish......
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Thanks for the tips guys.. I've currently used GetBackNTFS and Restorer 2000 to get the files back.
The problem is that at lot of the files are pretty badly corrupt. I'm gonna try a couple different softwares and see if I have any better results.
I'm splitting the points to the posted links.
Esulin
The problem is that at lot of the files are pretty badly corrupt. I'm gonna try a couple different softwares and see if I have any better results.
I'm splitting the points to the posted links.
Esulin
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P.S. I realized the other day that the laptop in ID4 is actually a Mac. I can just see them interfacing with Appletalk... hahahahahaha.
Please let me know which one works best once you have tried them out....I am doing a recovery as well and will let you know how i get on. I would start by saying that i am trying "getdataback for ntfs" and it is taking about 22 hours for a 70 gig partition!
One thing to add: don't use this drive to boot up anymore, it'll only make things worse, slave it to another system and try the recovery tools from there. You'll just have to find out how much your data is worth to you.
LucF