RE: Lost data when trying to create new partition.

OK

Your situation seems a bit more clear but my advice here is still just
supposition. If you have set "drive" D as active when it was C before-- and
this is the ONLY thing you have asked PM to do, then setting the active
partiton back to C may sovle the problem. This action *SHOULD* be safe to
perform. I recommend booting from the PM CD to try it.

I have no idea what your PC Inspector is doing so I cannot recommend whether
you should proceed with it or not. The conservative recommendation then
would be to NOT let it execute any changes. Please tell me WHERE you got
this PC Inspector from.

Just go one step at a time and it will be fine.


"philbury" wrote:

Hi Mark - thanks a lot for your reply

Richard's suggestion of undeleting the partition didn't work (Thanks anyway!)

I have no backups for half of the data and it is important personally. Music
& photos.

I'm afraid I'm a meddler when it comes to PC's and I have already done a
system restore which gave me NTLDR missing. I got out of that with a great CD
rescue boot disk for that situation I had previously made. I did this before
reading your post!

I can't recall what program I ran which simply showed me all the missing
files. Now I have done the restore it is gone.

Also before reading your post I started running PC Inspector Recovery. It
is still running and has found over 6000 files so far.

I think my problem may have arisen when Partition Magic asked me if I wanted
to make the partition active and I may have said yes. When I look at the disk
in PM now it shows the D partition as active and the C partiton not. Hence
the NTLDR prob presumably.

Wait a bit if you like and I will report back when PC inspector has finished.

Phil


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MSI Radeon 200 m/b 512mb RAM
Athlon 64 3000+ (Winchester)
Hauppauge DVBT USB2
WMCE 2005


"Callmark1" wrote:

Hi Philbury:

If you can still "see" the files, then there is lots of hope. How to
proceed?

Perhaps your decision should be based on how valuable this data is: if it
is extremely valuable and you do not have backups, then maybe taking the unit
to a pro is the best.

If you have a reliable, up-to-date set of backups for all those files, then
the list of reasonable and expedient options grows.

If you do not have backups, don't try to make them now until it can be
determined what exactly has happened. Also, don't make any more attempts at
data recovery or any change at all.

So, first things first-- do you have backups? Based on your answer, we will
likely have further questions:

If you do not have backups, we will need to know:
The metrics of both your hard drives (size, filing system [FAT, FAT32 or
NFTS], partitions, etc.-- especially note any "hidden" partitions-- ).
Partiition Magic can boot from it's CD and present this info safely (you may
have to make your system bootable from the CD by tapping the F8 key during
the initial 'black screen" phase of the bootup and following the options
listed). Exactly what did you ask Partition Magic to do? step by step as
best you can remember. What recovery program did you use to view the files?

Mark


"philbury" wrote:

I was trying to create a new partition on my second hard drive with Partition
Magic. It asked me a question about whether the partition should be logical
or primary and it queried my answer then evrything went wrong!

The partition didn't get made and all the folders disappeared from the
drive. Is there an easy way to make them reappear or do I have to go down the
data recovery road. If the latter can anyone recommend a good cheap or free
program? I downloaded a trial version of one (actual recovery disabled) and
all the original folders appear to be fine.

Thanks for your help!



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MSI Radeon 200 m/b 512mb RAM
Athlon 64 3000+ (Winchester)
Hauppauge DVBT USB2
WMCE 2005
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