Re: Partition Magic trashed Lacie

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XP's built-in partitioning software has the 32GB limitation, not XP itself.
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Jonny
"ric_deez" <ricardo.dapaz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Hi there,
>
> I am running Windows XP SP2 Home Edition on a Compaq Presario. I also
> have a Lacie D2 Firewire 400/800 USB2 device which is connected via a
> firewire 400 port. The Lacie has a 250GB NTFS partition which I
> attempted to resize to create room for a 50GB FAT32 partition that I
> could also access from my Mac.
>
> I used PM 8.0 to do this and it got stuck at 62% and hung. After
> waiting for a few hours without making any further progress I aborted
> the process. I then discovered that Windows XP was no longer able to
> read the Lacie drive, which failed to mount even after a reboot. It
> turns out that MS has built a 30GB limitation on FAT32 volumes under
> Windows 2000/XP. That also seems to explain why the process hung at
> 62%... Pity PM doesn't seem to know about this!!!
>
> Anyway, I now have about 80GB of data on the Lacie which has been
> trashed as I don't seem to be able to get Windows to mount this drive.
>
> I am using a product called Handy Recovery 2.0 but it seems to take
> quite a while to recover partition information so I don't really know
> how this is going to pan out.
>
> I would love to get some advice on the following:
>
> - Alternatives to Handy Recovery (just in case)
> - Any advice on how to get my Lacie in a state where it can be seen by
> the OS
>
> I assume that the partition table on it has been fried so I am guessing
> that I will need to recover the files (any files?!?) to another disk
> (using handy recovery et al) and then re-format the Lacie and start
> again. The problem is how do I do this if Windows does not seem to see
> the drive? Disk Manager seems to think it is there but no properties
> are accessible.
>
> Any advice would be greatly welcomed.
>
> Best Regards.
>
>
> Ric
>


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