Re: Other partitions missing after format of extended partition.

The article worked great. The problem seems to be gone now.

BTW the reason I have split my hdd up like that is because I am a programmer
and I require multiple O.S. and data that is easier managed when kept in its
own drive.

But thanks for the help...


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Hi,

I have a very big and interesting problem. I have a 200gb hdd and I had
partitioned it into 12 partitions.

C: 11gb NTFS Primary
D: 7gb NTSF Primary
Extended
E: 8gb Fat32
F: 7gb FAT32
G: 6gb FAT32
H: 25.5gb FAT32
I: 25gb FAT32
J: 30gb FAT32
K: 30gb NTFS
L: 25gb FAT32

As you can see this is only 10 and not 12. That is because I decided to
format K: into NTFS and when the format (which gave and error)was
finished
all the partitions after G: were gone.

I ran a program that recoverd the partitions but the other two were not
recovered. I have gone into disk manager and it just shows the space
where
they should be ( G: 7gb and N: 9gb) as free space.

I am not to worried about recovering the missing data because it is
backed
up, what I do want is to fix this problem so it does not happen again.

An interesting side not is that this sort of problem also happened on my
previous hdd (160gb) with the partitions being roughtly the same size.
Also
numerous programs read the HDD as 130gb. But my bios picks it up as a
200gb.

If I was to format all my partitions as NTFS would this possibly fix the
problem?

Specs:

Win 2K
SP 4
MB: ASUS A7V333
HDD Samsung SP2014N


Any help would be great.



I suspect that your version of Windows does not have support
for 48-bit LBA enabled, hence all activities on the disk are
suspect. See here:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;305098
I also wonder why you would want to fragment your disk in
this way. I can see no advantages, only drawbacks.




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